Word: columbianization
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...Clive). Somehow they find time for charity work, church functions, community projects and college alumnae drives. They are enthusiastic music lovers (with a predilection for baroque quartets, German lieder and early Dixieland, an antipathy for anything atonal) and zealous art collectors (with a penchant for abstract expressionists, pre-Columbian sculpture and 18th century French furniture, a marked aversion to teak and leatherette...
...those who still think of pre-Columbian America in terms of only three major cultures-the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Incas-this book may prove a revelation. Fact is that from Tzinzunt-zan in Mexico to Tiahuanaco in what is now Bolivia, over a span of 4,000 miles and 2,500 years, more than two dozen pre-Columbian cultures flourished along the spine of America, and their rich complexity is still being unearthed...
...Noise? The Chicago museum, on the lakefront near the University of Chicago, was born to keep up with technology: the original building was part of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. For a while afterward it was the home of the Field Museum of Natural History. Reconstruction began in 1926, after Merchant Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald returned from a visit to Munich's famed Deutsches Museum, which pioneered in developing industrial exhibits the visitor could operate. He and his eight-year-old son William, were fascinated. Rosenwald gave the equivalent of $8,000,000 in Sears, Roebuck stock...
...exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...
...American Federation of Arts. For 75? admission, the viewer sees 500 pieces of gold worth $3,000,000 on the art market, stunningly shown in window-cases designed by Gene Moore, display director for Fifth Avenue's Tiffany & Co. Through it all shines the innocence of the pre-Columbian artist, who comes out vindicated in his greatness, as predicted by an early Spanish chronicler: "Thus the Sun taught his people how to be kings and lords over...