Art History and Anthropology: Modern Encounters, 1870-1970 love letters and mementos and intercultural exchange from the

and intercultural exchange from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries

Reproduction of The Virgin and Child stained glass panel in the collection of the Getty Center Museum

“With over one hundred images

This chess pieces are inspired by Man Ray's lifelong friendship with avid chess player and fellow artist Marcel Duchamp

he purportedly turned his birthright over to younger brother Max in favor of committing some of the family's vast financial resources to scholarship

Art History and Anthropology: Modern Encounters, 1870-1970 love letters and mementos and intercultural exchange from theEdited by Peter Probst and Joseph Imorde An in depth and nuanced look at the complex relationship between two dynamic fields of study. While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a skeptical distance prevails with respect to the disciplinary other. This