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Braun, Barbara
Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern
Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.
This book provides examples of the multifaceted influences of Pre-Columbian art on
artists from Gauguin to American artists of the 1970s. In her first chapter, Braun
traces the history of pre-Hispanic objects in Europe and Mexico in the context of
changing concepts of history and culture. She examines the choices made by
individuals and institutions in deciding which objects to collect, exchange, display, and
preserve, how and why. This chapter provides an orderly, chronological survey of the
major figures, institutions, and events.
The 4 th of the 7 chapters is titled “Frank Lloyd Wright: A Vision of Maya Temples”,
tracing Wright’s contract with and influence of Pre-Columbian architecture on his
work. In addition to Wright’s interest in early publications and photographs of pre-
Columbian architecture, his most direct and deepest contact took place at the 1893
World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he lived, and thereafter in the new
Field Columbian Museum, which acquired and displayed artifacts, photographs
(including photographs of Sayil and Labná by Maler) and the large casts from the
Exposition Including casts of the Labná arch, 2 details of the Nunnery Quadrangle,
and 1 section of the Governor’s Palace at Uxmal. Among the many large, high quality
reproduction are 4 photographs of Uxmal, 1 of the Palace at Labná (reversed leftright,
p.173), and 3 of the plaster copies.
Briggs, Peter, ed.
The Maya Image in the Western World: A Catalogue to an Exhibition at the University of
New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Although titled as a catalogue, this publication does not include a catalogue of the
works exhibited in the exhibition held at the University of New Mexico Art Museum
and Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. It does illustrate some of the works in the
exhibition and provides a rich context for their understanding.
The following three articles are separately listed and annotated in this bibliography:
Harrison, Peter, “Carlos Vierra: His Role and Influence on the Maya”
Paxton, Merideth, “Frederick Catherwood and the Maya”
Sabloff, Jeremy A., and Kelli Carmean, “Archaeologists’ Images of the Ancient Maya”.
Brine, Lindesay
Travel Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples; including a
journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan,
Palenque and Uxmal. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1894 (republished by Oracle
Pub., Ltd., Royston, Hertfordshire,1996).
The 10 images of Uxmal and map of the author’s travels in this volume are reproduced on
this web site.
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