ARH309H1 Chapter : ARH309 Reading Notes Wk 4
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Ethics readings week 4: griffin collecting pre-columbian art. Collecting art is an ancient and time-honored practice. Private collections often enhance materials collected by archaeologists. Private collectors are often scholars concerned with certain cultural aspects of a civilization: concerned with making assemblages that will make a point or amplify our picture of the ancient world and its way of perceiving things. Collecting is an ancient art goes back to the hellenistic times (or earlier?) and throughout history in every civilization: old private collections become nuclei of museums, private collectors become museum patrons. Pre-columbian art has been in circulation since cortez sent it back to europe but. Robert wood bliss, an american, is credited to be the first serious collector of. George g. heye collected the greatest resource of native american art (museum of. Miguel covarrubias, a mexican collector, wrote scholarly books on the anthropology, archaeology and art of mexico, central america, north america and bali: worked closely with archaeologists.
