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The Caribbean Sea provided key navigation routes between the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the civilizations of the Americas. Alexander von Humboldt referred to it as the Mediterranean of the New World. It also served as the first point of entry for Europeans exploring the region. Landing in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, Columbus claimed these lands for Spain. The Caribbean archipelago became the epicenter of Spanish power. But it was also the point of origin of smallpox and other maladies that decimated Indigenous communities across the islands, precipitating the myth that no Indigenous cultures survived the European arrival. The papers presented in this symposium volume provide new ways of understanding the circulation of ideas and materials among communities bordering the Caribbean Sea prior to the arrival of Europeans and suggest their lasting legacies. Drawing on archaeological evidence, colonial documents, and other sources, Erin Stone, William Keegan, and Lawrence Waldron bring attention to underexplored regions and links between communities. Reniel Rodriguez Ramos and Thomas A. Wake explore the connections between societies, closely considering the trade of objects as a vehicle of interaction. Looking to the future of archaeology, both Emma Slayton and Heather McKillop assess the applications of technology to augment archaeology regarding exchange patterns and transportation along waterways. Alexander Geurds and Rosemary Joyce consider the theoretical approaches to Caribbean archaeology and call for future research to reexamine how the Caribbean world is perceived. This volume was edited by Victoria I. Lyall, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at the Denver Art Museum. Individual Essay Synopses Erin Stone reconstructs the relationship between the Greater and Lesser Antilles prior to and just after contact in relation to the Spanish justifications for Indigenous slavery in this region. William Keegan provides a new perspective on the Lucayan society on the Bahama archipelago, a unique cultural expression that has been largely neglected by Caribbean archaeology. Reniel Rodriguez Ramos closely examines the complex connections between societies throughout the Caribbean, using quotidian items as a vehicle of interaction. Lawrence Waldron considers the motivations of the cultural persistence and longevity of certain regional traditions and motifs of the Saladoid and the Taíno, who are separated by two millennia. Thomas A. Wake reviews archaeological evidence of trade and exchange between the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama and the far reaches of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

Highlights beautiful objects - both useful and ceremonial - made by the Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast and Alaska. This guide includes seldom-told stories about individual artworks, as well as the Denver Art Museum's history of working with living Native artists.

The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2012 where scholars specializing in the arts and history of colonial Latin America presented research with topics ranging from ephemeral architecture, painting, and sculpture to engravings, decorative arts, and clothing of the period. This volume offers expanded versions of papers presented.

Presents the work of scholars who shared their research at the Denver Art Museum's 2017 symposium on Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art. Centred on the theme of murals, the book discusses how this art form functions as a tool for the expression of political, social, or religious ideas across diverse periods and cultures.

The Denver Art Museum counts among its greatest resources a world-renowned Spanish Colonial collection rich in art from all over Latin America. This lavishly illustrated volume - the first ever devoted to the museum's Spanish Colonial collection as a whole - serves as a primer to this stellar art collection.

Selecting from its permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum installed the long-running exhibition "Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry in Colonial Latin America" in its Spanish Colonial galleries in December 2014. This lavishly illustrated publication serves as a companion to the "Glitterati" exhibition.

Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. It includes thirty essays by art historians from across the US and Canada as well as a comprehensive history of the growth of Denver's impressive collection of art of the American West.

Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. It includes thirty essays by art historians from across the US and Canada as well as a comprehensive history of the growth of Denver's impressive collection of art of the American West.

In the summer of 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art in Motion: Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought. The perspectives explored in this volume reveal how scholars and artists with different backgrounds can employ overarching themes, such as motion, to investigate topics in arts and culture.

In 2014 the Denver Art Museum assembled an international group of scholars to present recent research on portraiture in the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico) and the British colonies of North America. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium.

Accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong shown outside Asia

A substantial contribution to American art history. Six writers on art and popular culture survey the western art in the twenty-first century, tracing its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. Their observations support an emerging history of western art that places it in a social, psychological, and political context.