New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.

322 p. : il. ; 28 cm.

Foreword. -- Advisory committee. -- Lenders to the exhibition. -- Preface. -- Relative chronology of Middle America. -- Color illustrations. -- 1. High cultures of middle America. -- 2. The beginnings of sculpture. -- 3. Olmec leaders, sculptors, and lapidaries. -- 4. Post-Olmec and Izapan art. -- 5. The western fringe. -- 6. Urban Teotihuacán. -- 7. Gulf coast sculpture in clay and stone. -- 8. Zapotec tombs and offerings. -- 9. The Maya Realms. -- 10. The wealth of the Indies. -- 11. Toltec imperial art and its heirs. -- 12. The Aztecs: the last empire. -- Selected reading list. -- Sources of illustrations. --

Tomado del Prefacio: ""The course of pre-Hispanic or, as it is frequently called, pre-Columbian art, has come full circle in our own twentieth century. It amazed the Spanish conquistadors four hundred fifty years ago, and, when first seen by European audiences, it evoked the spontaneous admiration and extravagant praise of such Renaissance figures as Dürer, and Peter Martyr, an Italian cleric who wrote the first history of the New World. But all too soon it lapsed as art in Europe, to continue there merely as exotica in some princeling's Wunderkammer and still later in museums narrowly confined to ethnology and anthropology. It is only in the United States that this art has been included in the collections of the most significant fine arts museums and begun to be recognized by a few graduate schools of art and art history in our universities a twentieth century development of fairly limited acceptance. We at the Metropolitan are now proud to present it with other great art of the world. "

Incluye bibliografía 319-322 p.