Before América: Original Sources in Modern Culture

$85.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Manuel Fontan del Junco (Editor), Manuel Fontán del Junco (Editor), María Toledo Gutiérrez (Editor), Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales (Editor) After Europeans christened two sweeping continents with hundreds of individual cultures and traditions “America,” the visual culture of the “New World” became filled with reinterpretations of ancient civilizations from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Before América turns back the clock to examine the formation of Americanist identity from Indigenous cultures, beginning with…