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About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Traveling with Cortés and Pizarro
| Publisher | 5 Continents |
| Year | 2018 |
| Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-88-7439-808-9 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Weight | 3130 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Stuart Handler, Hugh Thomson, Joanne Stuhr et al. |
| Article ID | art-79278 |
Pre-Columbian art through the eyes of a filmmaker, an art historian and a passionate collector.
A Pre-Columbian art lover and noted curator journey into a fine art collection, describing the rich cultural context and artistic merits of each work. Along with 150 full-colour glossy illustrations of the terracotta, earthenware, stone, silver, and copper objects, the acclaimed author, explorer, and filmmaker Hugh Thomson gives a detailed, exciting narrative, based upon extensive research, of the role art played in the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés and of Peru by Francisco Pizarro.
It is rare that a collector takes such a personal, descriptive part in publishing his treasure trove, but in this lavishly illustrated book, Stuart Handler describes why he gathered Pre-Columbian art, what attracted him to the individual pieces, and, from his forty-five years of building art collections in various media and genres, what artistic attributes make these objects outstandÂing works of art.
