{"title":"Ancient World","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogues, artists books and printed ephemera relating to the ancient world: Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and the broader archaeological and art-historical record of antiquity. Objects in this collection document how ancient material culture has been excavated, interpreted, exhibited and circulated — from scholarly working catalogues produced for landmark museum exhibitions to publications that trace the political and institutional histories of archaeological discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"animals-in-pre-columbian-art-emmerich-1965","title":"ANIMALS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART — André Emmerich Inc., New York, 1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndré Emmerich Inc., New York, 1965. Exhibition catalogue. Softcover, 21 × 29.7 cm. Illustrated throughout with 48 works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnimals in Pre-Columbian Art: A Comprehensive Exhibition of animals — wild, domestic and divine — in stone, pottery, textile, jade and gold from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1500.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA catalogue structured as a survey, read as a sequence of forms translated across material. Animal figures appear as vessels, effigies, containers — objects where function and image are held together. A spouted owl, a seal with its young, hybrid bodies carrying volume and gesture simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographic language is consistent: isolated objects, neutral ground, frontal or slight rotation. Each piece stabilised for viewing, removed from site, ritual, or use. The exhibition reorganises dispersed artefacts into a single visual field — stone, clay, textile, and metal aligned under a shared taxonomy of “animal.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptions provide minimal anchoring: culture, region, approximate date. Mochica, North Coast Peru. 300 B.C.–A.D. 100. The works remain partially unassigned, circulating between ethnographic record and sculptural presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover centres a single anthropomorphic vessel held in studio light. A later retail label (“Strand Price $1.50”) remains affixed, introducing a second layer of circulation: exhibition to bookshop to archive. Verso stamped: André Emmerich Inc., 41 East 57th Street, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Surface wear, handling marks, edge softening, light toning throughout. Retail sticker to front cover retained. Original period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"André Emmerich Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289097986386,"sku":"EMMERICH-PRECOLUMBIAN-1965","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Emmerich_Andre_INC._Animals_in_pre-Columbian_art_a_comprehensive_exhibition_of_animals_wild_domestic_and_divine_in_stone_pottery_textile_jade_and_gold_from_1000_B.C._to_A.D._1500_cove.jpg?v=1777190438"},{"product_id":"metropolitan-museum-of-art-small-sculptures-in-bronze-1950","title":"SMALL SCULPTURES IN BRONZE — Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950. Staple-bound picture book in printed paper wrappers, 34 pages, 18.5 × 25 cm. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic reproductions of bronze sculpture from antiquity through the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book belongs to an early post-war expansion of museum publishing in which collections were translated into inexpensive, portable sequences of images. Bronze becomes halftone. Scale becomes pagination. Objects held within the museum re-enter circulation as paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither exhibition catalogue nor general art history, the publication functions as a reduced museum: thirty-four pages through which sculpture could travel independently of the collection that authorised it. Its worn wrappers retain evidence of that secondary movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Age toning, marks and handling wear to wrappers; creasing and rubbing at edges and corners; small area of paper loss to lower rear wrapper. Internally generally clean, with occasional light handling marks. The visible wear records the publication's continued use and retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54067003294034,"sku":"MET-METMUS-CAT-1950","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_New_York_N.Y._._Small_Sculptures_in_Bronze._1950_1b590730-2639-4db3-9040-2f9621ce6f9c.jpg?v=1784746090"},{"product_id":"desroches-noblecourt-toutankhamon-et-son-temps-petit-palais-paris-1967","title":"CHRISTIANE DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT — Toutankhamon et son temps, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cover is a single, tight crop of a face: gold, blue-striped, unmistakable even worn — the funerary mask of Tutankhamun, photographed close enough to fill the whole board. Fine crazing runs across the laminated surface, and a small chip has come away at the top corner. The back is left blank, lightly foxed, with one faint vertical crease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished for the exhibition that ran at the Petit Palais from 17 February to 4 September 1967, catalogued and written entirely by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, curator of Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre, and inaugurated in person by André Malraux, France’s Minister of Culture. It brought together 45 objects from the royal tomb, drew over 1.24 million visitors, and held the French attendance record for fifty years, until 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of that is the reason to look twice. Between 1961 and 1967, Egypt sent a version of this same exhibition through the United States, Canada and Japan before it reached Paris — specifically to raise money and international pressure for the UNESCO campaign then underway to save the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising water behind the new Aswan High Dam. Admission money from shows exactly like this one funded a rescue operation still in progress when this catalogue went to print; the relocation itself wasn’t declared complete until September 1968, over a year after the doors in Paris closed. Everyone who paid to get in that spring was, mechanically, helping fund a mountain being moved. Desroches-Noblecourt was one of the people making that happen — not only the exhibition’s curator, but a central figure in the Nubian rescue campaign the tickets were funding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound into the book is the evidence, undramatized: a photograph captioned \u003cem\u003e4 janvier 1967. Venant du Caire par la Compagnie Air France, le masque d’or de Toutankhamon arrive à Orly\u003c\/em\u003e — the actual mask, arriving as air cargo six weeks before the exhibition opened. Further in, the entry for a single chaouabti runs to full scholarly apparatus: measurements to the millimetre, materials, provenance given plainly as \u003cem\u003eTombeau de Toutankhamon\u003c\/em\u003e, a citation straight back to Howard Carter’s own excavation report. A working catalogue, not a souvenir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbu Simbel wasn’t finished for another year. This book already was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, illustrated colour covers · 20 × 23.5 cm · 205 pages · Black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout · Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Fine crazing across the laminated cover, a small chip at the top corner, light foxing and a faint vertical crease to the back board. Text and plates clean throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée du Petit Palais","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54380410798418,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/MuseeduPetitPalais_Paris_France_.Toutankhamonetsontempsexposition.1967.jpg?v=1787644904"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/ancient-world.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}