{"product_id":"9781945483172-collecting-the-other-americas","title":"Collecting the \"Other Americas\"","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAncient Americas Collections in Art Museums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e The term “Pre-Columbian art” once described the material culture produced in the Americas, mostly south of the US-Mexico border, prior to the arrival of Europeans. Museums across the United States now refer to these departments as “the Americas” or “the ancient Americas.” A few individuals and museums began collecting in this area already in the late nineteenth century, but many others did not embark on it until well into the twentieth. A range of figures brought these collections into being: a handful of dedicated curators, pioneering directors, and passionate collectors and patrons engaged dealers, archaeologists, scholars, and governments to amass artworks and present them to students and the public alike. During this time, many art museums insisted on displaying these materials not as ethnographic or anthropological objects but as finely crafted works of aesthetic value—as art. During the latter half of the twentieth century, more concern arose over acquisition methods and standards as well as the ethics of collecting objects of cultural heritage and import.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Stewards of these collections in American art museums have begun to confront the changing meanings and import of what Nelson Rockefeller once described as the “Other Americas.” This Mayer Center Symposium volume captures the history of collecting and display of ancient American works in art museums, a history surprisingly poorly documented until now, and their significance for communities today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With additional contributions by:\u003cbr\u003e Susan E. Bergh, former Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e Kristopher Driggers, Associate Curator of Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e Rex Koontz, Moores Professor of Art History, University of Houston, and Consulting Curator of the Art of the Indigenous Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston \u003cbr\u003e Mary E. Miller, Director of the Getty Research Institute\u003cbr\u003e Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Irene Pope, Senior Research Associate with the Arts of the Americas and Textiles departments at the Art Institute of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e Matthew H. Robb, Mesoamerican specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, DC\u003cbr\u003e Nancy B. Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator and Chair of the Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56282724303222,"sku":"9781945483172","price":35.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36194125_ec3feaf1-6245-47a0-9a2f-ca68d8e27885.jpg?v=1758748719","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781945483172-collecting-the-other-americas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}