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This lavishly illustrated book explores the aesthetic and cultural
impact of New Mexico art from the 1880s to the present, and
highlights a refreshing range of works representing European,
native, ethnic, tourist, regional and commercial art. For the past
125 years, art in New Mexico has told a complex story of aesthetic
interaction and cultural fusion. Southwest art began with
19th-century documentarians confronting a disappearing Native
America and an exotic landscape. Artists who arrived in New Mexico
beginning in the 1880s wrestled with the commercialisation of the
region and the clash of cultural identities. Native peoples and
expedition photographers, tourism and the railroad, artist
colonies, the arrival of modernism, Trinity and the end of
romanticism, a new generation of native artists challenging ethnic
identity -- all have played a part in what we now call New Mexican
art. "The Art of New Mexico" provides new perspectives on the
evolution of art in the state, and highlights the outstanding
collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, which is the
repository for some of the finest works by renowned artists such as
Adam Clark Vroman, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, John Sloan,
Georgia O'Keeffe, and Luis Elijo Tapia. Curator and author Joseph
Traugott discusses how Native American and Hispanic artists of the
Southwest not only influenced the non-native artists who came to
call New Mexico home, but how in turn their work was influenced by
these newcomers. By organising key objects from the museum's
collection with an intercultural history of New Mexico art, the
book makes cogent connections between specific works, aesthetic
movements, and cultural traditions. As a result, this book will
engage readers who are well versed in the artistic traditions of
New Mexico, as well as those new to its aesthetic heritage. The
book is published to coincide with a reinstallation of the
permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe.
This book considers 250 works of art from across a vast timeline of
14,000 years, expanding the definition of what constitutes art to
include aestheticised cultural objects extending back to the
earliest worked points of the Paleo-Indian Clovis people. The
transition from these early works to modern and contemporary art
reflects changing economic, ethnic, ideological, religious, and
cultural perspectives, while considering the diversity, aesthetic
complexity, and cultural breadth that developed in New Mexico and
the greater Southwest. The art in this lavishly illustrated
publication includes pre-European Native American pottery, baskets,
and weavings; Hispanic santero art highlighting religious bultos
and retablos; as well as twentieth-century artists, many of whom
helped to shape the canon of modern and contemporary art. Examples
are drawn from both fine art and anthropology collections and
include works by the luminaries of twentieth-century art, including
the Santa Fe and Taos colony artists, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul
Strand, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Fritz
Scholder, and many more. This comprehensive book is published to
coincide with an exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art in
Santa Fe, New Mexico to open May 2012.
Soul Mates takes a serious and ironic look at popular icons in
western American culture--cowboy boots and masterpieces in western
art--to explore American cultural values and pervasive themes in
twentieth century art. Cowboy boots are examined as markers of
western life, as works of art, and subjects of works of art. The
author has selected stellar examples of boots made by skilled and
famous boot makers, including Lucchese, Tony Lama, and C. C.
McGuffin, to offer a counterpoint to the "fine art" more typically
considered. He has also selected drawings, paintings, prints, and
photographs that reflect the changing attitudes and perceptions of
western culture over the past 50 years and raise conceptual issues
about western mores and modern life. Featured are works by Barbara
Van Cleve, Frederick Hammersley, Bruce Nauman, Hal West, Luis A.
Jimenez, Jr., and many others whose art define and redefine aspects
of Western mythology and culture. The text examines the
contemporary art forms that shape the current representation of the
cowboy and the West in modern life and explores the origins of
cowboy imagery; the isolation of ranch life; the non-traditional
roles of female cobblers; and the depictions of boot wearers (both
male and female) as powerful, sexual, and independent. Soul Mates
is published to coincide with an exhibition to open at the New
Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 2010.
Through photographs and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily
intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of fifty-two
New Mexico artists whose work environments are as varied as the
artwork produced in them. Among those represented are contemporary
painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramic and textile artists,
video and conceptual artists living in the art capitals of Taos and
New Mexico and in many remote locales throughout the state. These
artist studios defy generalisation, and the interview-based
portraits and photographs document a range of creative approaches,
both practical and aesthetic, that these artists bring to the task
of organising and inhabiting their creative spaces. Influential
Santa Fe artist Eliseo Rodriguez was born eighty years ago in a
house on Canyon Road, in Santa Fe's historic art district. He and
his family 'hand-dug' what became a two-room adobe studio, since
expanded to thirteen. He believes he has painted in every one of
the rooms. Taos painter Earl Stroh has a cabinet with eighteen
narrow drawers holding pastels organised by colour -- a legacy from
his tutor and friend Andrew Dasburg. restored Victorian hotel in
Belen. Chicago's studio is an old parlour, stripped down and
painted white. For Agnes Martin, balance is found in a small Taos
studio, her third New Mexico art space. At 91, in three and a half
hours of painting a day, she continues to paint the way she sees.
Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory is the long-awaited, richly
deserved retrospective of one of Santa Fe and New Mexico's most
prominent artists. West was born in 1933 before the war that
brought New Mexico into the modern century. His father Harold E.
("Hal") West, a WPA artist, anchored his son in the rugged world of
ranch life and an abiding respect for American regionalism. Dreams,
memory, prairie, the night sky; demons, family, history; remoteness
and the grandeur of the vast windmills, coyotes and low-flying
ravens; childhood, manhood, a tiny white kite and an advancing
storm; vulnerability and masculinity; the strong, saturated colors
of an artist who knows what he knows - a figurative artist of the
subconscious nestled in peronal history with the New Mexico roots
intact. Featuring ninety painting and some prints and murals that
cover the period from early 1960s to the present and narrated by
the artist.
William Lumpkin's residential designs speak volumes about the
fusion of styles -- Spanish colonial, Pueblo, Art Deco -- in the
Southwest. This book shows his distillation of the pure
architectural elements of Pueblo style -- the heart of 'Santa Fe'
style -- in 47 modern adobe projects. A skilled manipulation of
this truly American architectural form. Also demonstrated is
Lumpkin's adept talent for incorporating modern living standards
into historic architecture with pleasing functional results.
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