The Spirit Within / El Espíritu Inherente: Art and Life in Latin America / Arte Y Vida En Latinoamérica

by Ellen Hoobler

This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.

Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of the raw materials themselves. Thirty-five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913875938
• ISBN13: 9781913875930
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Giles
• Length: 96 Pages