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...Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...evoked the majesty and terror of all-but-forgotten religions. Now Dr. Abner Weisman, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has shown that sculpture can be a guide to the pathology of the past. On view at Manhattan's Pfizer Building is his unique collection of pre-Columbian figures, each of which is a medical case history in clay...
...Weisman began collecting back in 1944 when, working with American Indians, he acquired herbs, roots and amulets that were used to cure diseases. While traveling in Mexico, he noticed that many pre-Columbian figurines had physical defects, concluded that they were meant to tell a story, possibly a medical story...
...Marisol's dolls are not just witty toys. Although her art has been mistaken for pop, she is actually more the "wise primitive." She naturally admires the work of the Douanier Rousseau, as well as African, pre-Columbian and early American sculpture. Her statues can also suggest the hex of voodoo, and she admits, "Sometimes I get scared by my own work." She knows the primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture...
...most deluxe of their caravans is run by the Archives of American Art at the Detroit Institute of Art, which will show 100 travelers the art of the Far East this October for $2,050 each, $500 of which is a contribution to the institute. Pre-Columbian relics in Central and South America will draw no fewer than four special tours between July and September...