Author: Arnold Skolnick
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826328434
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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A rare collection of art and literature perfectly suited for the artist, traveler, or anyone enchanted by the Southwest.

Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826309136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.

Author: Thomas Brent Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154101
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Of the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings (1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a national art. They ultimately established their reputations in the American Southwest. The two German American artists shared much in common, and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists. Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of these two important artists. In tracing the lifelong friendship and intersecting careers of Ufer and Hennings, the contributors to this volume explore the social and artistic implications of the artists’ German heritage and training. Following their training in Munich, both men hoped to build careers in the spirited art environment of Chicago. Both were sponsored by wealthy businessmen, many of German descent. The support of these patrons allowed Ufer and Hennings to travel to the American Southwest, where they—like so many other talented artists—fell under the spell of Taos and its picturesque scenery. They also encountered the region’s Native peoples and Hispanic culture that inspired many of their paintings. Despite their mutual interests, Ufer and Hennings were not identical by any means. Each artist had a distinct artistic style and, as the essays in this volume reveal, the two men could not have had more different personalities or career trajectories. Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their significant contributions to American art will be long remembered. A Place in the Sun is published in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum.

Author: Clara Lee Tanner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Lists names and activities by Indian artists and includes photographs of their work.

Author: Dorothy Dunn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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For the Southwestern Indians, painting was a natural part of all the arts and ceremonies through which they expressed their perception of the universe and their sense of identification with nature. It was wholly lacking in individualism, included no portraits, singled out no artists. But the roving life of the Plains Indians produced a more personal art. Their painted hides were records of an individual's exploits intended, not to supplicate or appease unearthly powers, but to gain prestige within the tribe and proclaim invincibility to an enemy. Plains painting served man-to-man relationships, Southwestern painting those of man to nature, man to God. Such characteristics, and the ways they persist in contemporary Indian painting, are documented by the 157 examples Miss Dunn has chosen to illustrate her story. Thirty-three of these pictures, in full color, are here published for the first time.

Author: Douglas Bullis
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This book features the work of 100 important painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, weavers, and jewelers living and working in New Mexico and Arizona today. Their stories and works of art will amaze as well as illuminate. This book provides the most vibrant picture of contemporary Southwestern art that you can find anywhere.

Author: Arnold Skolnick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517156681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Richard Brunson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826355935
Category : Landscapes in art
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association Winner of the 2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Arts Book Gold Winner of the 2016 PubWest Book Design Award for Adult Trade Book, Illustrated Known as a painter's painter, Irby Brown has been ranked among the foremost landscape artists of the American West. He is especially well-known for his striking plein-air work and his keen eye for light and color. This survey of his life and career is a long-overdue introduction to Brown's exceptional talent and techniques Irby Brown showcases sixty of Brown's finest landscape paintings, each in full color and on a full page. Narratives by the artist and fellow artists and patrons bring each of these pictures to life. The introduction discusses the most characteristic features of Brown's art and is followed by a brief biography that outlines his earliest influences, his military and art school years, and the story of how he became a professional artist. More than forty additional images of Brown's portraits, landscapes, field studies, and watercolors appear throughout the book, enhancing Brunson's exploration of Brown's artistic vision, biography, and process.

Author: Anthony Berlant
Publisher: Prestel
ISBN: 9783791357430
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A New York Times Best Art Book of 2018 This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery. Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. Through the exploration of paintings on Mimbres bowls, this book offers revelations about the culture's worldview based on the patterns and shapes depicted in their pottery. Drawing on extensive research as well as photography of the flora and fauna that still thrive in the Mimbres valley, the authors make the case that the pottery's beautiful black-and-white paintings and highly intricate designs are abstractions of visual experiences--some seen in the natural world and others generated by trance-like states brought on by ingesting the datura plant. Presenting a distinctive new interpretation of the iconography of ancient Mimbres painted ceramics, this volume addresses Mimbres culture and how this past civilization lived and communicated with the spirit world. Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Author: Patrick Eddington
Publisher: Northland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This reference shows where to find the trading posts, galleries, auctions, artists, and museums of the Four Corners Region. "Whether you're an experienced collector looking for new art sources or a beginner looking to buy your first Navajo rug, the "Trading Post Guidebook" will get you out of the galleries and into the Four Corners backcountry".--"The Arizona Republic". 250 photos, 115 in color.