Author: David L. Witt
Publisher: Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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They served the war effort in various capacities and many experienced combat."--Jacket.

Author: Dean A. Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826321091
Category : Art patronage
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A well-illustrated study of the patronage that allowed the fledging art colony in northern New Mexico to flourish.

Author: Edward Gonzales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Patrocino Barela emerged in 1936 as one of America's most important artists when he was featured in a show of Federal Art Project artists in New York's Museum of Modern Art. He was the first Mexican-American artist to receive such a high degree of recognition. His carvings in native juniper wood depict deep psychological and mystical insights into the human condition. Barela's art is not easily classified although his carvings display parallels to Romanesque art in their narrative quality and to Modernism in their sophisticated definition of space. There is also the aspect of the primitive, or of Eros, as Barela is in touch with the life force, the deepest level of humanity shared by all peoples and all cultures. In this way his imagery suggests the tribal art of Polynesia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and the pre-Christian Middle East. The artist made his home in Canon, New Mexico, outside of Taos. He never learned much about writing and he spent much of his life working on the farms and ranches of the Rocky Mountain states. He lived and died in poverty. His tragic death by fire took place in the workshop where he had carved some of the most profound art of our time. Driven by the undeniable need to create, Barela's art transcends time and place. His work comes from the roots of the land and Hispano society of New Mexico. The imagery he made, from the erotic to the tragic to the religious, shows individuals bearing the struggles of life. Barela eludes many traps into which the works of lesser artists fall, and achieves penetrating insights into our deepest emotions.

Author: Heather Hole
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300121490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A revelatory look at Hartley's New Mexico landscapes and the darker side of postwar American modernism Considered to be among the greatest early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) traveled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of landscape paintings--created in New Mexico, New York, and Europe between 1918 and 1924--that show an evolution in style and thinking that is important for understanding both Hartley's oeuvre and American modernism in the postwar years. Marsden Hartley and the West examines this pivotal stage of the painter's career, drawing upon his writings and providing illustrations of rarely seen and previously unpublished works. The author considers Hartley's involvement with the Stieglitz circle and its "soil-and-spirit" philosophy, the Taos art colony, New York Dada, and the impact of historical events such as World War I. Within this setting she analyzes the pastels and oil paintings that suggest Hartley's increasingly ambivalent response to the land. Beginning with optimistic, naturalistic views, the New Mexico works grew progressively darker and more tumultuous, increasingly reflecting a sense of loss brought on by war. The paintings become a site where the landscapes of memory, self, and nation merge, while reflecting broader modernist debates about "American-ness" and a usable past.

Author: Robert Rankin White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.

Author: Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Contains an essay about the artists in Taos, New Mexico: brief biographies, portraits, and samples of their work. [Luhan often invited artists and writers to Taos.].

Author: David L. Witt
Publisher: Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books
ISBN: 9781878610164
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Stories of the foreboding beings and presences that exist just outside our consciousness.

Author: Carmella Padilla
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890136140
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Addresses issues common to contemporary Native Americans, such as the definition of Indian art and the stereotypical Indian portrayed in film.

Author: David L. Witt
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423603915
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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" While this book stands on its own, it also serves as the exhibition catalog for a nearly yearlong show at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe"--Pref.

Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942884873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.