[EXHIBITION — PRE-COLUMBIAN ART]. — Pre-Columbian Art of Mex - Lot 16

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[EXHIBITION — PRE-COLUMBIAN ART]. — Pre-Columbian Art of Mex - Lot 16
[EXHIBITION — PRE-COLUMBIAN ART]. — Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico. Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux; Milan, Olivetti, 1990. A substantial large quarto volume (approx. 31 cm), 310 pp., with numerous black-and-white and color illustrations, some full-page; publisher’s hardcover with a color-illustrated dust jacket. Catalog of the major exhibition held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris from March 13 to July 30, 1990, organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux in collaboration with Mexico’s Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. The BnF lists 310 pages, with black-and-white and color illustrations and a bibliography on pp. 309–310. ISBN 2-7118-2343-1. A comprehensive work devoted to the major civilizations of pre-Columbian Mexico, ranging from ancient Mesoamerica to the Aztec, Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec cultures. The book brings together specialized studies and an extensive catalog of works from Mexican collections: monumental sculptures, masks, ceramics, figurines, ritual and funerary objects, jewelry, and hardstone works. The photographs notably feature the remarkable anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ceramics, reproduced in full-page spreads. The value of this catalog also lies in its institutional nature: it documents a major exhibition organized jointly by French and Mexican institutions and remains, even today, a valuable iconographic reference on the arts of ancient Mexico. An introduction is provided by Jacques Soustelle, while the various sections are authored by Mexican specialists, including Roberto García Moll and Sonia Lombardo de Ruiz. A fine copy, in very fresh condition inside, with its illustrated dust jacket showing slight scuffing at the corners.
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