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Golden Kingdoms - Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas, Hardback Book

Golden Kingdoms - Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Hardback

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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States.

It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century.

Featuring spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times-crucibles of innovation-where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas.

The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions.Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings ofancient American art through a thematic exploration ofindigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to thebook is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideasacross regions and across time: works of great valuewould often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists.

The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

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