Post #145259 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Mar 7, 2005 5:50 PM

VERY cool, thanks Tang, ordered the book. Me big fan of the man, him evolving from artist to collector/archeologist of primitive art.
(... having lived the life d'artiste in 1920s New York before.)

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...Moreover, many of Covarrubias's other accomplishments in design, arts administration, book illustration, and as a collector are activities insufficiently grand to interest anyone but social historians. Even in the fields of museology and archaeology, the singular collection of Olmec artifacts that Covarrubias and his wife acquired has been dispersed among the holdings of Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology in such a way as to lose the "collection" as a unique cultural icon, the mark of an inspired and particularly learned collector.
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...will this happen to the great mug collections, too?

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-03-07 18:59 ]