Getty Takes a Look at Collecting Mesoamerican Art in Upcoming Program
Collecting Mesoamerican Art, Thursday and Friday, April 28–April 29, from 2:30-5pm
Modern interior showing Olmec-style mask, ca. 1960s. Getty Research Institute, Stendahl Art Galleries records, 2017.M.38
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Getty will host Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico, a free online program via Zoom on Thursday, Friday, April 28–April 29, from 2:30-5pm.
The second international symposium of the Getty Research Institute’s Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative focuses on collecting practices in Mexico and the United States, when Hollywood luminaries and international collectors developed a taste for ancient Mexican art. By the 1960s, the pre-Hispanic past underpinned Mexican national identity, gained new audiences in international museums, and played a formal role in the history of art.
Speakers:
Christopher S. Beekman, University of Colorado, Denver
Ramon Folch, National School of History and Anthropology of Mexico
Ángel González López, North Carolina Museum of Art
Ellen Hoobler, Walters Art Museum
Jesse Lerner, Pitzer College
Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute
Megan O'Neil, Emory University
Payton Phillips Quintanilla, Getty Research Institute
Matthew H. Robb, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Antonio Saborit García Peña, Museo Nacional de Antropología
Adam T. Sellen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida
Andrew D. Turner, Getty Research Institute
The Pre-Historic Art Provenance Initiative documents and analyzes the commodification and mobilization of pre-Hispanic art and material culture by the international art market between the mid-19th and late-20th centuries.
The first symposium, Collecting Mexican Art before 1940: A New World of American Antiquities, took place in November 2019.
This program is part of the GRI's Untold Stories series, which celebrates the “untold stories” of visual culture, exploring how new works, people, and interpretations can shed new light on our understanding of and appreciation for the history of art.
This program will be offered in English and Spanish and will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.