A beautifully illustrated volume that presents more than a hundred and sixty works of art from Lima's famed Larco collection, the world's largest private collection of pre-Hispanic Peruvian art. Spectacular ceramics, textiles, metalwork and sculpture from the Chavín, Cupisnique, Salinar, Gallinazo, Moche, Parcas, Nasca, Lambayeque, Huari, Chimú and Inca cultures are illustrated and described, all with colour photographs. Some of the objects are remarkable for the skill of their craftmenship, such as ornate gold and silver jewellery and headresses, others intriguing for the beliefs they reveal, such as an intricate Lambayeque textile featuring elaborate divine beings, others are simply extraordinary, for example mosiac earplugs!

The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera

Arts & Photography

Berrin, Kathleen

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson

Gift note is only damage, Indians from the heart of Mexico, Full page color photos of all areas of art, fashion, culture, history. Extra Postage for Priority or International

Art of the Huichol Indians

History

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Bean, Lowell J.

Americas

Exhibiting the Foreign on U.S. Soil: American Art Museums and National Diplomacy Exhibitions before, during, and after World War II

The uneasy relationship between the arts, US art museums, and the federal government has not been thoroughly explored by scholars. This book focuses on the development of "national diplomacy exhibitions" during World War II and the early Cold War and explains how the War provided the government with an impetus to create a national arts policy. It discusses how national diplomacy exhibitions on US soil were deployed as persuasive tools to influence public opinion, to reconcile discrepancies between high art and democracy, and to resolve America's lagging art status and difficulties with "the foreign." The type of soft diplomacy that art museums provide by initiating national diplomacy exhibitions has not received emphasis in the scholarly community and art museums have essentially been ignored in cultural studies of the early Cold War.Scholarly analysis of museum exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century is now a popular topic, but investigations of exhibitions between 1939-1960 have been thin. By scrutinizing major exhibitions during those formative years this book takes a new perspective and examines the foundational development of the so-called "blockbuster" exhibition stimulated by World War II.The book will interest readers in visual studies, history, museums, cultural affairs, government, and international diplomacy.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Obras colosales del mundo Olmeca

Virginia M. Fields

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

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