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Matthew H.

Robb

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Mesoamerican Specialist

Library of Congress

BIOGRAPHY

Matthew H. Robb is the Mesoamerican Specialist at the Library of Congress. He is an expert in the history of art and architecture at Teotihuacan, as well as in the history of collecting pre-Columbian art in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has lectured and written on a broad range of topics related to the Indigenous arts of the Western Hemisphere.

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  • detail of Tree of death showing three female figures

    A Historical Moment at the Border, Economies, and Gender

    Matthew H. Robb

  • Matthew Robb speaking

    A Reminder of Gendered Violence

    Matthew H. Robb

  • arial view of Juarez neighborhood

    Archaeology, Discovery, and the Coyolxauhqui at the Temple Mayor

    Matthew H. Robb

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    Curatorial View of El Árbol de la Muerte: Maquilando Mujeres

    Matthew H. Robb

  • marigold detail of Tree of Death

    Marigolds in Ritual, Memory, and Medicine

    Matthew H. Robb

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    Reviving What Was Taken: Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Continuity

    Matthew H. Robb

  • skull detail of Tree of Death

    Skulls, Mesoamerican Iconography, and Capitalism

    Matthew H. Robb

  • Veronica Castillo in front of alter

    The Tradition of Trees of Life

    Matthew H. Robb

  • 2 Trees of Life

    Trees of Life and Death in the Fowler Collection

    Matthew H. Robb

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    Trees of Life in Context

    Matthew H. Robb

  • Matthew Robb speaking

    Veronica Castillo in Art Historical Context

    Matthew H. Robb

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  • El Arbol de la Muerte: Maquilando Mujeres (The Tree of Death: Factory Women)

    Veronica Castillo

    An elaborate ceramic sculpture by Veronica Castillo, with figures representing factory workers, murdered women, murderers and iconography associated with precolonial and Catholic Mexico.
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