The arts of the ancient Americas are diverse, visually arresting, and sometimes enigmatic. In this wide-ranging catalogue, nearly six hundred works of art from Mesoamerica southward are presented, with particular emphasis on the lesser-known area of ancient Costa Rica. Included are works from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, created in clay, stone, metal, wood, fiber, bone, and shell. Important pieces receive in-depth treatment - a two-thousand-year-old Costa Rican female shaman effigy, the earliest known sculptural rendition of the Maya hieroglyph for the animal spirit, and gold earspools probably worn by a high official in the Chimu Empire of Peru. A major emphasis is placed on the shamanic experience of transformation into animal selves, since this subject preoccupied artists throughout the ancient Americas. New and exciting research, including ground-breaking geological analyses of greenstones ("jades") by William B. Size, makes this catalogue an act of discovery. Rebecca Stone-Miller is curator of art of the ancient Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and associate professor of art history at Emory University.
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Rebecca Stone-Miller is curator of art of the ancient Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and associate professor of art history at Emory University.
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The Carlos Museum in Atlanta, is like many museums in the world. Seldom, if at all, visited by local area residents. Yet, like many unloved, un-noted, or unvisited museums it has a fabulous collection, and an excellent curatorial staff. Particularly in pre-Columbian, Costa Rican art. This catalog fills in what "Art of Costa Rica: Pre-columbian painted and sculpted ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler collections", does not. Indeed for Rosiales Engraved pieces there is no comparison. All dealers in Costa Rican art of this period have this book and it behooves any collector of the same to protect himself/herself to do the same.
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