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The Kelemen Journals.


The Kelemen Journals

Pal Kelemen and Elisabeth Kelemen

Sunbelt Publications

1250 Fayette Street, El Cajon El Cajon (ĕl kähōn`), city (1990 pop. 88,693), San Diego co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. Electronic equipment, aircraft parts, irrigation equipment, furniture, and men's suits are among its manufactures. , CA 92020-1511

0932653677 $39.95 www.sunbeltbooks.com

The Kelemen Journals: Incidents of Discovery of Art in the Americas, 1932-1964 presents vintage black-and-white photographs and the original journal entries of Pal and Elisabeth Kelemen, explorers and art historians who became leading authorities of their time on the pre-Columbian art Pre-Columbian Art is the art of Mexico, Central and South America in the time prior to the arrival of European colonizers in the 16th century.

Pre-Columbian art thrived over a wide timescale, from 1800 BC to AD 1500.
 and civilization of Mesoamerica. A breathtaking adventure of discovery recorded in first person leads the reader on a journey through time and space, re-creating a vision of traveling untamed lands and collecting fantastic artifacts artifacts

see specimen artifacts.
. A lavish, romantic memoir memoir

History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events.
, especially recommended for armchair travelers and art historians.
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