Word: pre-columbian
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...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...
...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...
...trippers; one of the 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...
...Tared and 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...