{"title":"Pre-Columbian Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePre-Columbian art encompasses the visual and material cultures of the Americas before European contact, spanning civilisations including the Mochica, Maya, Aztec, Inca, Olmec, and Chavin across Mesoamerica, the Andes, and beyond. Working in stone, ceramic, textile, jade, and gold, these cultures produced objects that operated simultaneously as ritual instruments, containers, effigies, and images. The exhibition and publication history of Pre-Columbian material in the twentieth century — through galleries such as André Emmerich Inc. and institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art — shaped how these objects entered Western art historical discourse and the commercial market.\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. Object, image, and category held in provisional alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"André Emmerich Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289097986386,"sku":"EMMERICH-PRECOLUMBIAN-1965","price":35.0,"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"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/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=1777191057","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/pre-columbian-art.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}