Thomas B.F. Cummins

Title

 Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art History; Department Chair, History of Art and Architecture

Email

 cummins@fas.harvard.edu

Telephone

 617- 496 1094

Fax

 617- 495 1769

Department

 History of Art and Architecture

School

 Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Regions of Interest

  Latin American Region-wide or Comparative Work

Countries of Interest

  Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru

Areas of Expertise

  History of Art & Architecture

Mailing Address

 Department of History of Art and Architecture Sackler Museum 485 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Location

 Sackler Museum

Research Interest

 Pre-Columbian and colonial art history in the Andean region and in comparison with Mesoamerica

Web Page

 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/facultyhaamaster_files/faculty0405.htm

Courses

 Aztec and Inca art; Visions and Virgins(seminar); Alphabetic and Visual Literacy in Colonial Latin America

Publications

 

BOOKS

2002        Brindis con el Inca: La abstracción andina y las imagines colonials de los queros.

            Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.  Revised Spanish Edition of

            Toasts with the Inca.

 

2002    Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Kero Vessels.

            University of Michigan Press.

 

EDITED VOLUMES AND CATALOGUES

 

1998     Native Traditions in the Postconquest World. Elizabeth Boone and Tom Cummins eds.,        Dumbarton Oaks: Washington DC.

 

1996     Arte Prehispanico del Ecuador: Huellas del Pasado Los Sellos de Jama-Coaque (with

            Julio Burgos and Carlos Mora) Miscelánea Antropológico Ecuatoriana Serie Monográfico

            11, Banco Central: Guayaquil.

 

1995 Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America Emily Umberger and Tom Cummins,

            eds. Phoebus, No. 7,   Phoenix: Arizona State University.

 

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

 

2003        “La Fábula y el Retrato: imágenes tempranas del Inca,” in Los Incas, Reyes del Perú.

Lima: Banco de Crédito, 1-41.

 

2005 Co-authored with Stephen Houston “”Body, Presence and Space in Andean and

Mesoamerican Rulership,” in Palaces of the Ancient New World S Evan and J Pillsbury, eds., Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 359-398.

 

2004    “Silver Threads and Golden Needles: The Inca, the Spanish, and the Sacred World of

Humanity,” Colonial Andes: Tapestries and silverwork, 1530-1830 NY: The

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1-15.

 

2003     “Imitación e invención en el barroco peruano” Barroco Peruano II Ramón Mujica

              Compilador, Lima: Banco de Credito  27-59.

 

2002        “To Serve Man: Pre-Columbian Art, Western Discourses of Idolatry, and Cannibalism,” RES 42, 109-30.

 

2003    "Nature as Culture's Representative: A Change of Focus in Late Formative Iconography," Archaeology of Formative Ecuador, eds. J Scott Raymond and Richard Burger,

            Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 423-464.

 

 2002    “Town Planning, Marriage, and Free Will in the Colonial Andes,” The Archaeology of Colonialism  co-editors Claire Lyons and John Papadopoulos, Issues and Debates Series, LA: Getty Press, 199-40.

 

2002        “Los Quilcakamayoq y los Dibujos de Guaman Poma,” Libros y escritura de tradición

           indígena: Ensayos sobre los códices prehispánicos y coloniales de México. Carmen

          Arellano Hoffmann, Peter Schmidt and Xavier Noguez  Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense,

          185-216.

 

2001 “Objetos y poder en la colonia” Fundación Cultural de Banco de Bolivia Año V, No. 16:

7-21.       Spanish translation of part of “Let Me See! Reading is for them Colonial Andean

Images and Objects `como es Costumbre tener los Caciques Señores'" 1998.

 

2001 “Latin American Art: Politics, History and Aesthetics,” DRACLAS NEWS  Winter/Spring

          3-5.