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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Do you like to go treasure hunting in obvious or out of the way
places? Do you like to view fine art in galleries large and small?
This book will give you directions to New Mexico's amazing New Deal
treasures and to buildings and bridges, murals and sculptures,
paintings and people who made them. They are not necessarily in the
most obvious places, and yet many are in places that one routinely
visits. They have been patiently waiting in our cities, our
villages, our parks, rarely witnessed as being "treasures." They
were constructed perhaps even by your own artistic ancestors. This
book is full of clues. Go sleuthing Growing up in Portales, New
Mexico, Kathryn Akers Flynn lived in an area with a New Deal
courthouse, a New Deal post office, and New Deal schools. She
worked at the local swimming pool and partied in the city park,
both built during the Depression era. In high school she was a
cheerleader on 1930s football fields for onlookers in Work Progress
Administration bleachers and camped out at a nearby Civilian
Conservation Corps created park and lake. She never knew any of
these structures were fashioned by the New Deal, nor did she notice
the New Deal treasures in Salt Lake City while at the University of
Utah where she received her Bachelor's Degree or the New Deal
structures in Carbondale, Illinois where she earned her Master's
Degree at Southern Illinois University. Returning to New Mexico,
she had a career in the state health and mental health
administration that included directorship of Carrie Tingley
Hospital, a New Deal facility with many public art treasures. It
wasn't until she became Deputy Secretary of State of New Mexico
that she realized what was around her. As a result she went on to
edit three editions of the "New Mexico Blue Book" featuring
information about New Deal creations all over the state. This book
presents the history and whereabouts of many such treasures found
since compiling an earlier book, "Treasures on New Mexico Trails,"
and another that focuses on New Deal programs nationwide, "The New
Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration." She also assisted with the
compilation of "A More Abundant Life, New Deal Artists and Public
Art in New Mexico" by Jacqueline Hoefer, also from Sunstone Press
and an apt companion for "Public Art and Architecture in New
Mexico." She was instrumental in creating the National New Deal
Preservation Association, and now serves as Executive Director.
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and
is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of
religious practice and experience throughout the early modern
world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes
dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the
intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the
walls of the home. The volume demonstrates that the home cannot be
studied in isolation: the sixteen essays, that encompass religious
history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture,
literary history, and social and cultural history, instead point
individually and collectively to the porosity of the home and its
connectedness with other institutions and broader communities.
Contributors: Dotan Arad, Kathleen Ashley, Martin Christ, Hildegard
Diemberger, Marco Faini, Suzanna Ivanic, Debra Kaplan, Marion H.
Katz, Soyeon Kim, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Borja Franco Llopis,
Alessia Meneghin, Francisco J. Moreno Diaz del Campo, Cristina
Osswald, Kathleen M. Ryor, Igor Sosa Mayor, Hanneke van Asperen,
Torsten Wollina, and Jungyoon Yang.
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