Collecting Mesoamerican Art Before 1940: A New World of Latin American Antiquities

The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606068725
• ISBN13: 9781606068724
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"