Published by: Ediciones Puro Chile
Author: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Edited by: Benjamín Ballester
Format: 32 x 23 cm
Extension: 136 páginas
Weight: 1,2 kg
Published in: 2023
Language: Español / Inglés 
ISBN: 978-956-243-095-1
PVP: $45.000 CLP 

Biographies of Collecting in Chile. More than four decades of the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, immerses us in the more than four decades of history of the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. More than a simple account of the four decades of the Museum, this publication – carefully edited by Ediciones Puro Chile – arises from the exhibition commemorating the 40 years of life of the Museum and pays tribute to its founder and collector, Sergio Larraín García -Moreno.

The book seeks to convey the cultural phenomenon of collecting, along with the value of these objects in our own culture and, at the same time, the role of private collectors and museums in contemporary society. It is a reading of this history through a narrative that addresses emotional and intimate aspects, disciplinary and theoretical, to create a rich tapestry that ranges from the first piece of the collection to the museum as it stands today. A book that, in the words of its editor, Benjamín Ballester, "brings together art, science, and community in an assembly of voices that share a common emotion with the art of America, its daily practices and rituals of pre-Columbian and ethnographic peoples."
Biographies of Collecting in Chile is a unique testimony that invites exploration and understanding of the legacy of a museum that has made a milestone in the preservation and dissemination of Pre-Columbian art.