“Golden Kingdoms: Materials, Value, and Luxury Culture in the Ancient Americas”
by
Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Joanne Pillsbury is the Andrall E. Pearson Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, she holds a Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University. Previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute, and prior to that, director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, she also served as Assistant Dean at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous volumes, including the three-volume Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900 (2008; published in Spanish in 2016 under the title Fuentes documentales para los estudios andinos) and Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2012), recipient of the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award. Her 2012 edited volume, Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas, was honored with the Association for Latin American Art Book Award. She is the co-editor (with Timothy Potts and Kim Richter) of the exhibition catalogue Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas (2017). Her talk will address theoretical and methodological issues related to the subject of indigenous ideas of value in the ancient Americas.
Reception to follow in the Ohio Staters, Inc Traditions Room
2nd floor the Ohio Union
This lecture is made possible by a generous endowment from alumna Elizabeth (Betsy) Salt (MA, anthropology, 1975).
