PUBLICATIONS
Publications and Bookstore
Bookstore
The bookstore, which specializes in national and foreign publications on pre-Columbian and indigenous art, has exclusive editions, audiovisual and multimedia material of national production, as well as children’s books, posters and cards.
MAPI Publications
Publication of research and edition of catalogs that accompany the exhibitions in the exhibition hall, in some cases as a result of research on pending issues for the local historical-cultural process and the regional context.
The following publications are available for free download in pdf format.
Publications
Bénédicte Dupin: Ca Aguasu (the mountain of a single tree)
Catalog of the exhibition Ca’aguasu (el monte en un solo árbol), exhibited at MAPI in September 2015.
MAPI collections catalog
MAPI, under the auspices of the Municipality of Montevideo, presented the first Catalog of MAPI Collections.
Uruguay in Guaraní: Indigenous missionary presence
Catalog of the traveling exhibition Uruguay en Guaraní: Presencia indígena misionera.
MAPI: Architectural and historical value of its headquarters building
The building that today houses the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art (MAPI).
Ancestral Memories: Art and Archeology in Uruguay
Prehistory and early history of Uruguay: the different indigenous groups.
Pre-Hispanic Imaginaries in Uruguayan Art
The result of an unusual look at a whole century of national art (1870-1970).
Travelers and Visionaries
Documentary Annex. Exhibition at the Palacio Santos associated to Imaginarios Prehispánicos en el Arte Uruguayo (Pre-Hispanic Imaginaries in Uruguayan Art).
Geometries of the past
Pre-Hispanic Art from the Sierras of Ecuador and Colombia. Archaeological pieces from the VIII and XV centuries
Guarani-speaking woods
Indigenous missionary presence in our territory, told through the imagery of the XVII-XVIII century.
Aborigines of the Argentine Gran Chaco
Exhibition of digital enlargements of a selection of photos taken by Grete Stern between 1958 and 1964.
Of earth, water and fire. Pre-Hispanic ceramics
Pre-Hispanic ceramics from Ecuador and Colombia, one of the most important collections in MAPI’s holdings.
Glimpses of the Other: postcards
Postcards based on photographs of indigenous groups taken by the Italian Guido Boggiani in the Chaco.
Illustrated death. Exhibition of ziconographies
Exhibition of José Guadalupe Posada, en the framework of the Cooperation Agreement signed between Mexico and Uruguay.
Pre-Columbian Mexico in Uruguay
Pieces from public and private collections, accompanied by documents and texts.
Martín Chambi. Photographs of the Andean south.
Photographs of the Andean South of Peru 1920-1950 (Coaza, 1891 – Cusco, 1973). Retrospective exhibition.