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...Alcina Franch, professor of American anthropology at the University of Madrid, combines scholarship and a curatorial eye to produce Pre-Columbian Art (Abrams; 614 pages; $125). Franch provides a systematic survey of the once powerful civilizations that flourished in Mexico and Central and South America before 16th century Spaniards spread destruction in their frenzy for New World gold. Pre-Columbian art, the author notes, drew on a staggering variety of mythologic forms. Similarities between the designs of ancient America and Asia are not coincidental; prehistoric migrations apparently carried the seeds of cultures halfway round the world. In addition to illustrations...
...least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part of the ecology and must be accommodated...
...also attended a normal meeting of the board of Dumbarton Oaks, which has fellows studying Byzantine History, Pre-Columbian Studies and Landscape. It also houses two museums and has a 10-acre garden. Melanie Mopsick, a Dumbarton Oaks official said yesterday. Bok could not be reached for comment...
...addition to the paintings, during his lifetime. Sert gave the Fogg the "Barcelona Series," a collection of prints also by Miro, and gave the University works by Calder and a pre-Columbian gold ornament collection...
There is also Latin America's isolation and mournful history: the rise and fall of great pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish colonialism, wars of liberation and the unquiet peace of countless dictators. Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Márquez addressed this past last year when he accepted the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature from the Swedish Academy: "A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us ... and nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty." The problem, said the novelist, was how to tell the story. The region's writers found solutions...