Image: Columnam à Praefecto prima navigatione locatam venerantur Floridenses (Column in Honor of the First Voyage to Florida) (detail), Jacques de Morgues Le Moyne. Engraving from Jacques de Morgues Le Moyne, Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americæ provincia Gallis acciderunt (Frankfurt, 1591), pl. 8. Getty Research Institute, 87-B24110
Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat.
GETTY CENTER
Research Institute Galleries I and II
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This exhibition analyzes representations of the Americas, questioning the mythologies and utopian visions that proliferated after the arrival of Europeans to the continents. Featuring artistic interventions by Denilson Baniwa, an Indigenous contemporary artist from the Amazon region of Brazil, and the voices of local community groups in Los Angeles, Reinventing the Américas counters the views of European chroniclers, illustrators, and printmakers from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries by offering a multi-perspectival approach.