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This
exhibition represents a collaboration among the 19 students in
the First Year Seminar, “Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian,”
and Martin Antonetti, curator of the Mortimer
Rare Book Room. In the fall of 2005, this seminar studied
(among other things) the history of the ancient Maya, original
works of Maya art in museum and private collections, the travel
accounts written by John Lloyd Stephens in the 19th century, the
lithographs created by Frederick Catherwood, and debates about
the collection and meaning of pre-Columbian objects in the present.
The exhibition title, the interpretive texts and the annotated
bibliography were all written by the students in the seminar as
their final project for the course. The exhibition is on view
in Neilson Library through July 31, 2006.
Book
Arts Gallery
Neilson Library, Level 3 Core
March 15 - July 31, 2006
A
reception with the student curators was held on Thursday, March
30, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm in the Book Arts Gallery.
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EXHIBITION
Each
image below is a link to a particular facisimile lithographs from Catherwood's
Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and
Yucatan (1844), including interpretative text written by
the students. The images can be viewed in order via the links at the bottom
of each page, or individually by returning to this home page and selecting
the image you would like to view. Plate descriptions are also available
in Spanish. See
also the Annotated Bibliography.
Plate
1
Idol,
Copán |
Plate
2
Pyramidal Building,
Copán |
Plate
3
Back of Idol,
Copán |
Plate
4
Broken Idol,
Copán |
Plate
5
Idol and Altar,
Copán |
Plate
6
General View,
Palenque |
Plate
7 top
Principal Court,
Palace, Palenque |
Plate
7 bottom
Interior, Casa III,
Palenque |
Plate
8
General View, Las
Monjas, Uxmal |
Plate
9,
Ornament, Casa del
Gobernador, Uxmal |
Plate
10
Archway, Casa del
Gobernador, Uxmal |
Plate
11
Gateway, Great
Teocallis, Uxmal |
Plate
12
Ornament, Great
Teocallis, Uxmal |
Plate
13
General View,
Uxmal |
Plate
14
Portion of Building,
Las Monjas, Uxmal |
Plate
15
La Casa de Las
Monjas, Uxmal |
Plate
16
General View,
Kabáh |
Plate
17
Interior, Principal
Building, Kabáh |
Plate
18
Well and Building,
Sabactsche |
Plate
19
Gateway,
Labnah |
Plate
20
Well,
Bolonchen |
Plate
21
Las Monjas,
Chichén-Itzá |
Plate
22
Teocallis,
Chichén-Itzá |
Plate
23
Castle,
Tuloom |
Plate
24
Temple,
Tuloom |
Plate
25
Colossal Head,
Izamal |
Special thanks to Martin Antonetti, Betsy Barone, Barbara Blumenthal,
Dick Fish, Karina Hernández, Elisa Lanzi, Linda Muehlig,
Sherry Poirrier and Barbara Polowy, all of whom contributed significantly
to this First Year Seminar, this exhibition and its website. I
also acknowledge College Hall and the Smith
College Museum of Art, whose financial support enabled us
to travel to museum collections during our seminar, borrow original
objects to study, and present a Spanish-language
version of our work. And most definitely, thanks to Christine
Nicolov ‘73, who inspired us to take on this project in
the first place.
DANA
LEIBSOHN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART, SMITH COLLEGE
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