Ancient art of the Americas from New England collections (Art Ebook).pdf

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The
Museum
art
of
Fine
Arts
is
has
a
history
of
involvement
w^ith
the
Ancient
Art
of
the
Americas
that
museum
in
longer
than
one
would
suspect,
longer
perhaps
than
that
of
any
other
the
country.
But
that
history,
alas,
has
been
sporadic,
lacking
in
con-
and
without
logic.
In
1912,
the
museum
presented
what
may
have
been
the
first
exhibition
of
Pre-Columbian
art
outside
an
archaeological
or
anthropological
context.
In
1933,
on
the
other
hand,
the
museum
gave
away
one
of
the
finest
Olmec
jadeite
masks
that
exists.
Two
years
ago,
we
staged
a
brilliant
comprehensive
exhibi-
sistency,
tion.
us
to
terminate
a
twelve-year
The
Gold
of
Ancient
America,
but
shortly
before
that,
space
requirements
forced
program
of
continuous
museum
exhibitions
selected
of
from
the
vast
collection
Harvard.
The
Pre-Columbian
and
primitive
fine
pieces
of
art
in
the
Peabody
Museum
gold,
at
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
has
collected
textiles
of
the
ancient
Americas,
but
no
sculpture;
it
possesses
a
few
but
no
Pre-Columbian
pottery.
Panamanian
and
Colombian
This
exhibition
signalizes
an
end
to
inconsistency
and
the
establishment
of
a
new
policy
whereby
the
museum
will
collect,
preserve,
display,
and
interpret
all
the
artistic
forms
through
which
the
ancient
Americans
expressed
themselves,
as
well
as
the
of
the
primitive
cultures
of
the
world.
In
art
Museum
in
1912,
Professor
Alfred
M.
Tozzer,
the
distinguished
anthropologist,
reported
in
the
Bulletin
on
the
Pre-Columbian
exhibition
noted
above.
There
he
stated
that
will
"the
exhibition
serve
to
show
visitors
.
.
.
that
there
was
something
in
this
country
a
protest
pre-Columbian
times
worthy
in
of
the
name
of
art."
This
quite
obviously
was
opinion,
and
the
purpose
of
the
show
was
to
Tozzer
had
as
collaborator
esthete,
the
exhibition
Dr.
prove
that
his
view
was
right.
Professor
Denman
W.
Ross,
a
connoisseur,
of
mind.
and
teacher
of
singular
originality
and independence
He
was
respon-
in
sible
for
the
museum's
extraordinary
art
collection
of
Peruvian
textiles
and,
the
West,
led
the
way
to
an
appreciation
art
of
East
Indian
sculpture.
These
pioneers
in
the
"dis-
covery"
of
Pre-Columbian
cated
today.
Every
would
find
their
minority
view
of
sixty
years
ago
vindi-
museum
that
pretends
to
of
account
sion
of
of
the
artistic
achievement
comprehensiveness
now
takes
full
the
ancient
Americans and
of
the
visual
expres-
all
primitive
peoples.
The
content
of
this
exhibit
has
been
deliberately
limited
to
sources
in
greater
Boston
and
this
region
of
New
England
to
demonstrate
both
the
proliferation
of
esthetic
interest
in
this
field
of
human
expression
and
to
show
the
richness
of
material
both
small
radius.
in
the
museum
and
in
private
hands
that
has
been
gathered
within
a
future
program
of
the
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
will,
we
trust,
provide
a
nucleus
of
The
activity
and
a
source
of
gratification
for
collector
and
connoisseur
and
for
a public
that
responds
in
increasing
numbers
tothe
beauty
and
the
wonder
of
the
Ancient
Art
of
the
Americas.
PERRY
T.
RATHBONE,
Director
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Boston
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Ancient
Art
of
the
Americas
from
New
England
Collections
Exhibition
and
Catalogue
by
Charlotte
Thomson
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
Boston

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