Author: Pillsbury, Joanne; Potts, Timothy; Richter, Kim N.
Title: Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient America
Description: New York / Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum / Metropolitan Museum of Art / The Getty Research Institute, 2017. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt stamped titles in illustrated jacket. xiv, 311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm. "Golden Kingdoms provides a sweeping overview of the luxury arts in ancient America from the second millennium BC to the Spanish Conquest in the sixteenth century. Wroght with extraordinary skill from gold, silver, jade, turquoise, shell, textile, and feathers, the spectacular imagery created by court artists played a central role in the royal regalia and sacred rituals that validated imperial power in Pre-Columbian kingdoms from the Andes in the south to Mexico in the north. Reserved for the religious and political elites of the Olmecs, Maya, Chimú, Moche, Aztecs, and other peoples, many of these objects were traded over hundreds of miles and cherished for centuries as heirlooms, often ending up as dedications in temples and sacred natural wells (cenotes), or as burial goods for the afterlife. Based on the latest archaeological excavations and scholarship, this study provides a radical reinterpretation of this fscinating material that reflects the value system of the indigenous cultures themselves. Many of the objects have never before left their countries of origin."--Back cover of jacket. Near fine.

Keywords: Latin American Art ; Luxury Latin American Art ; ;


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