Esthetic recognition of ancient Amerindian art /

Esthetic recognition of ancient Amerindian art /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kubler, George, 1912-1996.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) : 54 illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Yale publications in the history of art. Yale publications in the history of art (Unnumbered)
Subject:	Indian art. Indians -- Antiquities. Antiquities. Indian art. Indians -- Antiquities. America -- Antiquities. America.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12524856

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Varying Form of Title:	Aesthetic recognition of ancient Amerindian art
ISBN:	0300222041 9780300222043 0300046324 9780300046328
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
Summary:	In this book one of the pioneering thinkers in the history of Pre-Columbian art considers the varying esthetic responses of Native Americans, Europeans, and Americanists to indigenous art of the Americas. George Kubler chronicles the lives and writings of seventy historians, explorers, missionaries, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians who lived between 1492 and 1984 and who devoted sustained attention to Amerindian art. His "biographical surroundings" focus on how these individuals differed in their ways of evaluating Amerindian art forms and what this reveals both about the art and about the development of esthetic thought. Drawing on such sources as writings about Renaissance travels and military actions, the records of church missionaries in converting and resettling native peoples, statements by native and European historians in the seventeenth century, debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about the worth of America to the world, archaeological and anthropological research since the mid-nineteenth century, and recent esthetic theories about ancient American art, Kubler presents the impressions of individuals form Columbus to Diego de Landa to Charles Darwin to Alfred Kroeber and Alfonso Caso. The book also includes and discusses drawings and photographs by travelers and explorers. Kubler's historiographic approach allows us to view Amerindian art from a fresh and challenging perspective"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Kubler, George, 1912-1996. Esthetic recognition of ancient Amerindian art. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991 Yale publications in the history of art (Unnumbered)

Table of Contents:

American Antiquity
Salvaging Amerindian antiquity before 1700
Idealist studies of Amerindia from above
Empiric esthetics from below
Americanist historians of art since 1840
Anthropologists and archaeologists after 1875.