Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company - American Moderns & the West (Hardcover)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (18791962) was a political, social, and cultural visionary; salon hostess; and collector of genius in almost every field of modernismpainting, photography, drama, psychology, radical politics, social reform, and Native American rights. Luhan spent her adult life building utopian communities, first, as an expatriate in Florence (190512) working to recreate the Renaissance; next as a New Woman in Greenwich Village (191215), hosting one of the most famous salons in American history; and finally, in Taos, the New World (191847), bringing together a community of artists, writers, and social reformers including writers D. H. Lawrence, Jean Toomer, Mary Austin, and Frank Waters; choreographer Martha Graham; and anthropologists Elsie Clews Parsons and John Collier. With Luhan as their hostess, these European and American talents found inspiration in the mesas, mountains, Hispanic villages, and Indian pueblos of northern New Mexico. Modernist works by painters and photographers, including Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia OKeeffe, Ansel Adams, Rebecca Strand, and Paul Strand, are featured alongside indigenous art that inspired their modernist sensibilitiesNative American painters like San Ildefonso Pueblos Awa Tsireh and Taos Pueblos Pop Chalee, whose work Mabel supported, and traditional Hispano devotional art collected by Luhan.

General

Imprint:	Museum of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2016
Editors:	Lois Palken Rudnick • MaLin Wilson-Powell
Introduction by:	Wanda M. Corn
Dimensions:	245 x 205 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-89013-614-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Postmodernism in art & design Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-89013-614-9
Barcode:	9780890136140

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