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Collecting the “Other Americas”: Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums

Edited by Ellen Hoobler and Victoria Isabel Lyall

2025
Digital and Print
This symposium volume captures the history of collecting and display of ancient American works in art museums, a history surprisingly poorly documented until now.
El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean

Edited by Victoria Isabel Lyall

2024
Softcover
This volume presents expanded essays from the El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean symposium.
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Terezita Romo

2022
Hardcover
This lavish book establishes and examines Malinche's symbolic import and the ways in which artists, scholars, and activists through time have appropriated her image to interpret and express their own experiences and agendas.
ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

2020
Hardcover
This lavishly illustrated publication explores the ways in which the past continues to exert an inﬂuence on communities throughout Latin America.
Murals of the Americas, Mayer Center Symposium XVII

Edited by Victoria I. Lyall

2019
Softcover
In November 2017, the Mayer Center held its seventeenth annual symposium at the Denver Art Museum.
Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer: Papers from the 2002 & 2007 Mayer Center Symposia at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

2013
Softcover
This volume represents the first publication of the papers dedicated to arts of the ancient Americas from the Mayer Center.
Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon

Margaret Young-Sánchez and Denise P. Schaan

2011
Softcover
This catalog presents ceramics from the Denver Art Museum’s collection, Barbier-Mueller Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and private collections.
Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum

Margaret Young-Sánchez

2010
Hardcover
This catalog presents seventy-eight works of ceramic, stone, jade, and gold with in-depth discussions by art historians, archaeologists, and an anthropologist and linguist.
Tiwanaku: Papers from 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

2009
Softcover
Companion to the 2005 Mayer Center symposium on Tiwanaku culture.
Denver Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection

Edited by Laura Caruso

2006
Softcover
This book is a small sampling of the Denver Art Museum’s most treasured holdings.
Andean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez and Fronia W. Simpson

2006
Softcover
Companion guide to the first New World symposium, Andean Textile Traditions.
Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca

Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

2004
Hardcover
The essays in this richly illustrated book explore the ancient civilization of Tiwanaku and its art and culture.