{"title":"Ancient World(s)","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogues, printed matter, and related documents concerned with the art, material culture, and visual forms of ancient and indigenous civilisations across the Americas, Oceania, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Mayan, Olmec, Pre-Columbian, New Guinea, Islamic, Indian, and related traditions: objects that have passed through collection, museum, catalogue, and circulation, and whose printed afterlives are part of their history.\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\u003cbr\u003eExhibition catalogue\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e21 × 29.7 cm\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\u003ePublished on the occasion of an exhibition held at André Emmerich Inc., New York, 1965. Illustrated throughout with 48 works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA catalogue structured as a survey, but 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 figure — an 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, and light toning throughout. Retail sticker to front cover retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exhibition document that compresses multiple temporalities into a single printed sequence. 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The catalogue presents works from the private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona, including objects from the Sepik, Yuat, Keram, and Korewori River regions, the Chambri Lakes area, and Manam Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact exhibition document built from image, region, collection, and sequence. The cover places a single carved figure against a largely empty field, with the title set in ochre lowercase. Inside, the catalogue proceeds through isolated reproductions: masks, sculptural figures, textile fragments, ritual forms, and carved objects held against blank paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design is restrained and sharply staged. A brown vertical band runs through the interior spreads, functioning almost as a filing edge or display strip. Objects are numbered rather than explained at length. The publication turns a private ethnographic collection into a municipal exhibition record: photographed, ordered, and circulated through the Stedelijk\/Museum Fodor apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe back cover carries later handwritten notes and a sketched map-like form in blue ink, marking the object’s secondary life after the exhibition. These additions do not interrupt the catalogue so much as extend its condition: New Guinea becomes image, route, note, price, and retained paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. General toning, handling marks, soft creases, edge wear, and light marks to wrappers. Handwritten annotations and blue-ink drawing to rear cover. Stapled binding intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 1960s Dutch exhibition catalogue where Oceanic objects pass through collection, museum, printed sequence, and later use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum Fodor \/ Stedelijk Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289825075538,"sku":"KOHLER-NIEUWGUINEA-1963","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kohler_-Peter.-Kunst-uit-Nieuw-Guinea_-1963---5.jpg?v=1777198939"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/Kohler_-Peter.-Kunst-uit-Nieuw-Guinea_-1963---5_2deb6952-7ec7-4d71-b068-74edd9ef9240.jpg?v=1777200409","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/ancient-worlds.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}