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The Kelemen Journals: Incidents Of Discovery Of Art In The Americas, 1932-1964
The Kelemen Journals Incidents Of Discovery Of Art In The Americas 19321964 Author:Pal Kelemen, Elisabeth Kelemen Incidents of Discovery: The Kelemen Journals, 1932-1964 by Pal and Elisabeth Kelemen. Edited by Judith Hancock Sandoval. Foreword written by Dr. Mary Miller of Yale University. Pal Kelemen, a Hungarian historian, was a leading authority on the pre-Columbian art and civilization of America. His two volume Medieval American Art was a pioneering v... more »enture, covering and documenting the Maya, Aztec, and Inca arts, approaching his subject from the point of view of art history, combining it with the study of archeology, anthropology, and ethnology. His wife, Elisabeth, was an American-born opera singer who gave up her budding career to become Pals fellow explorer and photographer. This is their storya romantic tale of discovery in an age when all travel in the tropics of Central and South America, and much of Mexico, was an adventure.« less