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| ¡CHISTES! : Hispanic Humor of Northern New Mexico & Southern Colorado [Nasario Garciá; Foreword by John Nichols] "When I moved to northern New Mexico thirty-three years ago," writes John Nichols, "I immediately fell in with my neighbours and commenced laughing". As folklorist Nasario García explains in his introduction to this collection, falling in with the voices of laughter and comic relief is a timeless, vital aspect of Hispanic culture. !Chistes! brings together for the first time in English and regional Spanish a medley of orally gathered humorous anecdotes from northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The chistes range in form from practical jokes, pranks, slips-of-the-tongue, hyperbole, solecisms, slapstick, and double entendres. True for most of the villages and towns represented in this collection, Hispanic humour is a function of folks who understand how to deal with difficult times with verve and at time self-deprecation, places with a strong communal identification, where everyone knows everybody's business and tells it with good-natured fun; where nothing is off limits, not even the church; where local politics takes it on the chin and farm animals provide the punch. The original Spanish versions of these tales are particularly flavourful for their colourful vernacular found uniquely in the region covered. { 176pp, 140x215mm, July 2004; PB, £13.50, 0890134316:9780890134313 / HB, £19.99, 0890134308:9780890134306 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| ALBUQUERQUE IN OUR TIME : 30 Voices, 300 Years [Debra Hughes] Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city astride a great river, celebrates its teicentennial with thirty of its most colourful citizens sharing in their own words memories of a place and time after the second world war, when a modern city's character and landscape were being shaped. Stop in for a meal at Duran's Pharmacy, Wander down Central to the corner of First, the city's historic centre. Visit the creaky memories of Old Town and smell the coffee in Las Barelas. Stroll the winding street of Martinez Town or thrill to a rise in a hot-air balloon at the State Fair. Nob Hill in the south-east heights, circa 1940, imagined itself out of the desert scrub. By 1950 housing subdivisions began to crawl toward the Sandias, and downtown saw its heyday along with the inevitability of its decline. Preservation and conservation found their way onto the city stage, and today a revitalisation movement has breathed new life into old town and downtown. { 144pp, 150x220mm, February 2006; PB, £16.99, 0890134812:9780890134818 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| ALL THIS WAY FOR THE SHORT RIDE : Roughstock Sonnets, 1971-1996 [Paul Zarzyski] The author includes over 30 poems culled from the last 25 years which truly showcase his life and soul, a soul that was kidnapped by rodeo and stolen by poetry. His poems and the accompanying photographs by Barbara Van Cleve capture the grit of the rodeo style. REVIEW: "A rare slice of what Mr Zarzyski calls the 'real west, the sunset into which -- imagine why if you will -- the cowboy rides off.." -- New York Times Book Reviews. { 112pp, 178x280mm, July 2003; PB, £11.99, 0890133085:9780890133088 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| ALMOST AMERICANS : A Quest for Dignity - An American Memoir [Patricia Justiniani McReynolds] A tender memoir of the American immigrant experience written by the daughter of a Norwegian father and Filipino mother. { 349pp, 140x215mm, December 1997; PB, £11.50, 1878610643:9781878610645 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| ALWAYS THE HEART : A Bilingual Love Story [Jim Sagel] Text in English & Spanish. A beautifully written coming of age story loosely based on the Navajo legend of the Changing Woman, who has the power to regain her youth. This bilingual romance tells two stories-that of a young high school freshman finding her first love and that of her grandmother's recollection of her own experiences with love. { 160pp, 140x215mm, December 1998; PB, £8.99, 1878610686:9781878610683 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| ART OF NEW MEXICO : How The West is One -- The Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts [Joseph Traugott] 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. { 276pp, 250x300mm, April 2007; HB, £36.99, 0890134979:9780890134979 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| AWAY FROM HOME : American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 [Margaret Archuleta et al (eds)] Artfully weaving old photographs, first person accounts and well-organised text and verse, the editors present important and predominantly Native views of some 'good, bad and ugly' aspects of Indian boarding school life. { 144pp, 180x280mm, February 2005; PB, £19.99, 0934351627:9780934351621 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| BEESH LIGAII IN BALANCE : The Besser Collection of Navajo & Pueblo Silverwork [John Torres-Nez] Companion to an exhibition exploring the Navajo concept of hozho -- harmony or balance in life -- this catalogue features outstanding examples of silver boxes and other containers created by Navajo silversmiths between 1920 and 1970 from the Sandy and Diane Besser Collection at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. Many of the pieces are stamped or otherwise decorated, and some contain detailed stone inlay work by Pueblo artists. Published by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. { 50pp, 230x215mm, January 2005; PB, £9.99, 0890134332:9780890134337 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| BEFORE SANTA FE : Archaeology of the City Different [Jason S Shapiro. Foreword by Frances Levine] Drawing from over a century of archaeological research, including groundbreaking new discoveries from recent excavations, the author presents a thorough examination of Santa Fe's pre-Hispanic past over 12,000 years, from the arrival of the earliest Paleoindians, Pueblo occupation, up to the Spanish Entrada and the official establishment of the city in 1610. The book explores Santa Fe's rich layers through archaeological artifacts and other evidence that tell the story of the culture and peoples who lived, worked, prospered, and died in Santa Fe over the course of this long and varied period. { 232pp, 180x255mm, September 2008; HB, £26.99, 0890135215:9780890135211 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| BENIGNAS CHIMAYO : Cuentos from the Old Plaza [Don J Usner] Listen to this authentic voice from the far land of New Mexico's past. Pull up a chair. Throw away your watch. The author will tell you a story. She was born more than a century ago, and her stories were born centuries before that. Now through the graceful agency of her grandson, Don Usner, her stories will live on, told and retold, shared widely, the irrepressible spirit of old New Mexico captured and held between these covers. { 153pp, 205x240mm, July 2003; PB, £9.99, 0890133824:9780890133828 / HB, £26.99, 0890133816:9780890133811 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| BORN OF FIRE : The Life & Pottery of Margaret Tafoya [Charles S King] Regarded as one of the great masters of Pueblo ceramics, Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001) is known for her trademark large black polished ceramics, decoraded with traditional imagery of rain clouds, water serpents, bear paws, and other symbols. An award-winning artist, she was recipient of the Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, and a National Heritage Fellowship. { 160pp, 245x285mm, June 2008; HB, £29.99, 0890135096:9780890135099 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| BUILT OF EARTH & SONG : Churches of Northern New Mexico: A Guide [Marie Romero Cash] A practical field guide to over 75 religious sites. Built of Earth and Song provides historical data on each church and the religious art within it, along with maps, a glossary of relevant Spanish and English terms, and a concise bibliography." { 170pp, 155x220mm, December 1993; PB, £9.99, 1878610309:9781878610300 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| CHANGING DREAMS : A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers [Shepard Barbash; Photographs by Vicki Ragan] Takes a generational look at the fast-changing world of the woodcarvers of Oaxaca, Mexico. These artisans became famous in the 1980s for their colourful novelty figures, a contemporary folk art that Shephard Barbash and Vicki Ragan documented in the book "Oaxacan Woodcarvers". Fourteen years later, beginning in 2004, Barbash and Ragan returned to Oaxaca and discovered many changes in the lives of the woodcarvers they had known. Barbash effectively presents their personal stories in narratives drawn from interviews accompanied by Ragan's arresting black-and-white photographs of the carvers and their lives today. A series of diptychs of the same people taken in 1989-90 and again fifteen years later are accompanied by extended essay-captions on the changing circumstances shaping their lives. Faced with a glut of carvings on the market, declining sales abroad, and an unsteady supply of tourists at home, a number of Oaxacan artisans put aside their craft to become mojados, or foreign workers, drawn by the economic opportunities north of the border. With eloquence and insight, the book puts a human face on bilateralism, a fancy term to denote divided souls. From the dusty villages of Oaxaca to the orchards of Oregon and the kitchens of Chicago, the carvers have joined millions of Mexicans who, unable to find good work or sustain their recent prosperity in their own country, have fled across the border: artisans and aliens. "Changing Dreams" is a moving story of change and survival, conveying the growing aspirations and changing dreams of a people struggling to catch up without leaving too much behind, whose creations we enjoy but whose lives we barely understand. { 154pp, 230x150mm, November 2007; HB, £26.99, 0890135053:9780890135051 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| CHILE CHRONICLES : Tales of a New Mexican Harvest [Carmella Padilla. Ophotography by Jack Parsons] Tells the surprisingly elaborate story of the chilli in New Mexico. We meet the people who depend on the chilli for their livelihood, from the growers and harvesters who have pledged to keep their family heritage alive, to the scientists whose on-going goal is to produce a richer colour or easier-to-peel skin. Through vivid photographs and flowing text, we explore the life of a chilli plant, finally understand why it hurts when we bite into one, and of course, debate the age-old questions: red or green? { 132pp, 254x248mm, July 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890133506:9780890133507 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| CHOCOLATE, CHIPMUNKS & CANOES : An American Indian Words Coloring Book [Juan Alvarez] Text in English & American Indian. This charming colouring book takes children on a journey of discovery with Chief the Eagle and his friends. A fun way to colour and learn American Indian words for common animals, objects, and foods. { 32pp, 230x300mm, December 1993; PB, £2.99, 1878610031:9781878610034 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| CLASSIC HOPI & ZUNI KACHINA FIGURES [Andrea Portago & Barton Wright] Presented here are one hundred classic-era (1880s-1940s) Hopi and Zuni carved dolls from private and public collections that have rarely, if ever, been put on exhibition and that collectively form a profound and powerful assembly of the very finest examples from the classic period in Kachina carving. Andrea Portago has gracefully photographed these rare figures using available light so as not to distort their colours and to reveal their movement and drama, passion and personality. { 186pp, 255x305mm, April 2006; HB, £36.99, 0890134839:9780890134832 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| COLLECTIVE WILLETO : The Visionary Carvings of a Navajo Artist [Shonto Begay et al] Navajo medicine man Charlie Willeto spent the last years of his life prodigiously carving figures of wood, becoming a well-known personage in Navajo folk art. Although he died in 1964, his work lives on in this glossy collection of essays and photographs, which depict 100 of his carvings in full colour reproduction. We should thank this book for bringing Willeto out of obscurity. { 115pp, 215x270mm, July 2003; HB, £29.99, 0890133964:9780890133965 / PB, £19.99, 0890133972:9780890133972 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| CONEXIONES : Connections in Spanish Colonial Art [Carmella Padilla (ed)] This book gives new insight into the vitality of the Spanish Colonial art tradition as a connector of cultures world-wide. The book argues for the relevance of Spanish Colonial art as both a powerful document of the past and a living tradition in the modern age. By placing the lasting visions and values of yesterday within the context of today, we see the soul of an artistic tradition for all time. { 176pp, 235x290mm, July 2002; HB, £33.50, 0971910308:9780971910300 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| CUENTOS : Tales From the Hispanic Southwest [Jose Griego y Maestas & Rudolfo A Anaya] Witchcraft, magic and events from everyday life provide lively twists to these twenty-three folktales that evoke the rich tradition of the early Spanish settlers. Bilingual Stories in Spanish and English. { 174pp, 140x215mm, June 1980; PB, £9.50, 0890131112:9780890131114 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| CUENTOS FROM MY CHILDHOOD : Legends & Folktales of Northern New Mexico [Paulette Atencio] These 25 New Mexico legends and folktales, in English and regional Spanish, were told to the author by her mother, who in turn learned them from her godmother. They relate to the supernatural and deliver the truths and moral messages of centuries-old folktales told around the world. { 160pp, 140x210mm, July 2003; PB, £9.50, 0890132267:9780890132265 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| DANCE HOUSE : Stories from Rosebud [Joseph Marshall III] A combination of essays and short stories based on incidents or events which took place on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The short stories, some semi-autobiographical in nature, are intertwined with Lakota oral traditions. { 214pp, 155x230mm, December 1998; PB, £9.50, 187861066X:9781878610669 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| DANCING TO PAY THE LIGHT BILL : Essays on New Mexico & the Southwest [Jim Sagel] A delightful panorama of south-western culture is presented in this collection of satirical and penetrating essays exploring the language, turbulent history, and rich multicultural fabric of life in this unique region. { 143pp, 140x215mm, December 1992; PB, £6.99, 1878610104:9781878610102 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| DEATH OF BERNADETTE LEFTHAND : A Novel [Ron Querry] Mystery surrounds the senseless death of the beautiful and spirited Bernadette Lefthand, a young Indian woman with a loving husband, a new baby, and a penchant for dancing. { 218pp, 140x215mm, December 1993; HB, £15.99, 1878610252:9781878610256 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| DICTIONARY OF NEW MEXICO & SOUTHERN COLORADO SPANISH [Rubén Cobos] This book, continuously in print since 1983, has become a classic Spanish reference book, widely used in classrooms across the USA. Linguist and folklorist Rubén Cobos, now in his nineties, has been diligently working on revisions for the past decade. Much expanded -- the number of pages has increased by 70 -- this revised edition will assume its place as the most authoritative reference on the archaic dialect of Spanish spoken in this region. { 278pp, 140x215mm, July 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890134537:9780890134535 / HB, £26.99, 0890134529:9780890134528 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| EL NORTE : The Cuisine of Northern Northern Mexico: Revised Edition [Jim Peyton] This book celebrates the cuisine of the north, the "other" Mexico. In these pages are a comprehensive array of dishes from a style of cooking which favors broiling and beef and flour tortillas, and a perhaps unexpected variety of seafood entrees and simple but elegant home-style dishes. Familiarity with the many subtleties of this cuisine is certain to enhance the pleasures of the table. For all their variety and distinction, these recipes are amazingly easy to prepare, using ingredients that are readily available. There are wonderful recipes for drinks, sauces, appetisers, soups, salads and vegetables, tortillas and bread, rice and beans, meats, poultry, seafood, light meals and snacks, sandwiches, desserts and sweets. One appendices is dedicated to "Entertaining with Northern Mexican Cuisine", another appendices is on "Nutrition & Northern Mexican Cuisine". El Norte is perfect for anyone who enjoys the preparation and consumption of Mexican food! { 283pp, 205x230mm, December 1995; PB, £14.99, 1878610589:9781878610584 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| ERNEST KNEE IN NEW MEXICO : Photographs, 1930s-1940s [Dana Knee (ed)] Ernest Knee (1907-1982) was a gifted photographer and Howard Hughes’ personal photographer. He was the first cameraman to record Angel Falls. Montreal-born Knee first visited Santa Fe in 1931 and soon set up a darkroom on Camino del Monte Sol, joining the ranks of a flourishing art community. He became friends with many artists and photographers of his time, including Edward Weston, Gustave Baumann, Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Laura Gilpin. Knee’s landscape work remains a primary achievement in New Mexico’s photographic history. Dana Knee has restored and edited some five thousand large-format negatives, many never printed by the photographer in his lifetime, selecting over one hundred images for the first published retrospective of Knee’s work. { 114pp, 230x300mm, April 2005; HB, £26.99, 0890134340:9780890134344 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| FAITH & TRANSFORMATION : Votive Offerings & Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection [Doris Francis (ed)] Amulets are objects of supranormal potency that safeguard the wearer during critical periods of life passage and transformation. Ex-votos, small metal objects often in the shapes of human figures or specific parts of the body, are presented as gifts to supernatural beings in thankful reciprocation for favours received. Drawing on examples from the Alexander Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, this book describes the actual uses and ritual of the objects by people around the world who embrace different systems of faith and follow distinct cultural and ritual practices. The contributors, comprising an international group of historians, curators, folklorists, and anthropologists, focus on select pieces collected from Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia; Spain and Italy; Byzantium, Greece, and Poland; Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia; Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, Turkey, Iran; Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan. { 158pp, 205x255mm, November 2007; PB, £19.99, 0890135045:9780890135044 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| FILIPINO CUISINE : Recipes From the Islands [Gerry G Gelle] A comprehensive presentation is given of all the regional styles of cooking from the island nation of the Philippines. All of the cultural influences that make up this country are presented in the cooking, including Asian, Spanish, Muslim, Portuguese, Mexican, and, of course, Filipino. { 280pp, 200x230mm, July 2008; PB, £19.99, 0890135134:9780890135136 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| FINE INDIAN JEWELRY OF THE SOUTHWEST : The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection [Shelby Tisdale PhD] New Mexico art patron Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewellery during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists oft he Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum. { 216pp, 235x250mm, August 2007; PB, £23.50, 0890135061:9780890135068 / HB, £33.50, 0890134820:9780890134825 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| FOLK ART FROM THE GLOBAL VILLAGE : The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art [Mary Wachs (ed)] Alexander Girard (1907-1993) amassed the largest cross-cultural folk art collection in the world. To date over a million visitors have flocked to the folk art museum in Santa Fe to savour and take delight in the bright and beautiful objects that inspired the renowned architect and designer. Girard was captivated by the 'handcrafted' cultures of the world and saw the tragedy of their demise. Yet as a collector he was looking not to capture the past but to nourish the spirit of mankind and encourage the art that we can create for ourselves now. The Girard Wing at the Museum of International Folk Art, designed by the collector to permanently exhibit some ten thousand pieces and visited by millions, continually affirms that Girard was right in believing that in folk art there are no foreigners. This book features one hundred plates in full colour and an essay by Jack Lenor Larsen. In all, over one hundred countries are represented -- African tribal sculpture, Mexican Day of the Dead figures, sub-Saharan textiles, toys from around the world, and much more. { 96pp, 190x215mm, December 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890134642:9780890134641 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| FOLK ART JOURNEY : Florence D Bartlett & the Museum of International Folk Art [Laurel Seth & Ree Mobley (eds)] Folk art was neither widely collected nor highly valued in the early 1900s, when globetrotting Chicago socialite and philanthropist Florence Bartlett (1881-1954) began buying indigenous works encountered on her travels and dreamed of founding a museum to celebrate cultural diversity. Beartlett realised her goal in 1953, when the Museum of International Folk Art opened in Santa Fe near her long-time summer home. 50 years later, Bartlett's vision lives on in an ever-expanding museum collection that includes contemporary pieces as well as centuries old textiles, woodwork, pottery and ethnic garb. REVIEW: "An intriguing look at a pioneering collector..." -- Chicago Tribune. { 114pp, 270x220mm, June 1995; PB, £18.50, 0890134464:9780890134467 / HB, £26.99, 0890134421:9780890134429 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| FROM THIS EARTH : The Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery [Stewart Peckham] This book follows the pottery-making traditions from the earliest utility wares of the Mogollon and Anasazi Indians to the artistically superb pottery made by contemporary Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande Valley. The 175 pieces features trace the long development -- over 1800 years -- of Pueblo Indian pottery while highlighting some of its more remarkable moments. { 180pp, 254x280mm, July 2003; PB, £26.99, 0890132054:9780890132050 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| GARDEN OF STORIES : Jardin de cuentos [Jim Sagel] Text in English & Spanish. Jim Sagel continues the adventures of Tomas, whose story was first told in "Where the Cinnamon Winds Blow". { 151pp, 140x215mm, December 1996; PB, £8.99, 1878610554:9781878610553 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| GEORGIA O'KEEFFE : Works on Paper [Barbara Haskell] This ground-breaking volume, the first to consider Georgia O'Keeffe's works on paper, explores the media of watercolour, charcoal, pencil and pastel. O'Keeffe, an artist of immense stature in twentieth-century art, is known primarily as a painter. However, her earliest mature works, which led to her first New York exhibitions and initial acclaim, were works on paper as well, and resumed her intense commitment to drawing and watercolour in the 1960s and 1970s. The works on paper can be viewed in the larger context of O'Keeffe's career as an artist. They move from stylised, flat patterning of the early charcoals to the rhapsodic organic forms and fresh uses of colour in the watercolours to the tighter, more focused compositions of the later pastels, charcoals and pencil drawings. Finally, the works on paper of the 1960s and 1970s are characterised by an extreme simplification and almost decorative flatness. Richly illustrated with 31 full-colour plates and 21 duotones, accompanied by an introduction, critical essay and biographical chronology. { 102pp, 225x300mm, June 1995; PB, £19.99, 0890131538:9780890131534 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| GLEN CANYON : Images of a Lost World [Tad Nichols] This is a powerful testament to the beauty and history that gave way to progress. Beginning at Hite, Utah, the site of an old pioneer camp, and following the course of the river through the canyon to Lees Ferry, this book leisurely takes in the sweeping views and labyrinthine side canyons that make the wondrous place that was Glen Canyon. The long 162-mile long stretch of river through the canyon chronicles the natural history of south-eastern Utah and the human history as well. Anasazi ruins and mining camps, heron colonies and hanging gardens, reflecting pools and tapestry walls are here magnificently recalled. With his photographs, writings from diaries kept during his years on the river and recollections, Tad Nichols takes us on a journey -- no longer possible today -- through the heart of canyon country. This book is what remains of one of the last great wilderness experiences. { 158pp, 265x230mm, November 1999; PB, £19.99, 0890133328:9780890133323 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| GOOD LIFE : New Mexico's Traditions & Food [Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert] This classic work on traditional New Mexico life and cooking is now available in an illustrated edition featuring over eighty recipes representing he culinary essence of Northern New Mexico kitchens. Evoking the customs of Hispano family life, home economist and folklorist Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert preserves her native traditions while imparting to today's cooks kitchen-tested dishes adapted for the modern kitchen. { 96pp, 140x215mm, January 2006; PB, £9.99, 0890134804:9780890134801 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| GROWING DESERT PLANTS : From Windowsill to Garden [Theodore B Hodoba] The author's clear instructions give even the inexperienced gardener all the necessary information to succeed. People living outside the desert can also grow desert plants successfully. { 212pp, 215x280mm, December 1995; PB, £16.99, 1878610546:9781878610546 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| GUADALUPE : Our Lady of New Mexico [Jacqueline Orsini Dunnington] This is the story of 3 centuries of devotion to the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. Today, Guadalupe remains the primary Marian devotion in New Mexico where her abiding popularity among Catholics -- of all ethnicities -- has crossed over into mainstream culture. REVIEW: "This mix is apt to draw her audience from all those who love Guadalupe, whether historians, artists or devout believers..." -- New Mexico Magazine. { 189pp, 180x230mm, July 2003; PB, £16.99, 0890133360:9780890133361 / HB, £29.99, 0890133352:9780890133354 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| GUSTAVE BAUMANN : Nearer to Art [David Acton, Martin F Krause & Madeline Carol Yurtseven] Baumann's stunning woodcut prints of the great landscapes of the Southwest, the Pacific Coast, Grand Canyon and scenes of the artist colony days in Santa Fe are awash in brilliant hand-ground pigments that are delicately rugged and both personal and mystic. As these colours woodcuts attest, Baumann was a remarkable artist and craftsman. { 158pp, 230x280mm, July 2003; HB, £33.50, 0890132518:9780890132517 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| HEALING THE WEST : Voices of Culture & Habitat [Jack Loeffler] Book & CD. This is an insightful and timely compilation that will appeal to readers interested in environmental issues in the American West. The book developed out of interviews of key figures (historians, environmentalists, lawyers, Native Americans, etc.) in the land usage rights movement. { 175pp, 180x235mm, October 2008; HB, £23.50, 0890135207:9780890135204 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| HERE, NOW & ALWAYS : Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest [Joan K O'Donnell (ed)] This book -- companion to a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe -- is an inspirational collection of native thoughts on place, history, tradition and change. The voices represent Indian scholars, artists and writers from various south-western tribes speaking to themes of origin, cycles, community and survival. { 88pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £16.99, 0890133875:9780890133873 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| HOME : Native People in the Southwest [Ann Marshall (ed); Poetry by Ofelia Zepeda] In the American Southwest, Native people remain connected to the lands that have been their homes for centuries. In Home: Native People in the Southwest, they tell of that connection, of how it has survived and changed over time, and of how they are preserving it for future generations. Native artists express multiple visions of home in their art. The stories of the people who made the art are all different and yet, as Native people, they have a shared history and land, and their stories have common themes for all people. The permanent collection of the Heard Museum is a part of these stories. In the pages of this book, inspired by the Heard Museum's major new exhibition of the same name, you will encounter many expressions of the meanings of home as they are embodied in clay, pigment, plant materials, fiber, wood, metal, and words by people whose art is indivisible from their lives and whose lives are indivisible from the landscapes in which they live them. { 192pp, 235x285mm, May 2005; PB, £23.50, 0934351759:9780934351751 / HB, £33.50, 0934351767:9780934351768 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| IF YOU POISON US : Uranium & Native Americans [Peter H Eichstaedt] An in-depth look at the mining on Navajo land in the Southwest over the course of three decades and the devastating effects. { 264pp, 155x230mm, December 1994; HB, £13.50, 1878610406:9781878610409 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| IMAGES IN THE HEAVENS, PATTERNS ON THE EARTH : The I Ching [Janet Russek & David Scheinbaum; Introduction by Jonathan Porter] The ancient Chinese wisdom of emperor Fu Hsi's I Ching or The Book of Changes has served as a guide to human behaviour for millennia. Pondering the highly visual images imparted in the hexagrams of the I Ching, the seeker finds complex responses to questions or situations embedded in the multiple layers of images that must be deciphered and applied to one's individual circumstances. Among the I Ching's remarkable qualities is its capacity to speak universally through lyrical allegories of the natural and human worlds. Photographers and collaborators Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum have long been students of the I Ching. As landscape photographers accustomed to the teachings of the natural world, the relationship between their work as visual artists and their personal experiences working with the I Ching naturally led them to create this visual companion to the hexagrams. Their photographic interpretation of the Chinese Oracle -- featuring sixty-four duotone landscape portraits paired with text from the I Ching -- offers an additional metaphorical dimension to consultations with the book. { 152pp, 140x215mm, August 2004; HB, £26.99, 0890134278:9780890134276 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| IMMORTAL SUMMER : A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest [Mary J Straw Cook] In 1897, two sisters embark from Pennsylvania in search of soul-broadening experiences in the Indian Southwest, newly opened to intrepid travellers. Their letters and photographs are the heart of this brilliantly reassembled grand tour. { 164pp, 155x230mm, July 2003; PB, £16.99, 0890134030:9780890134030 / HB, £29.99, 0890134022:9780890134023 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| IN NEW MEXICO LIGHT [Douglas Kent Hall; Foreword by Sam Shepard] Photographer, writer, award-winning filmmaker, and poet Douglas Kent Hall is one of the great documentarians of his generation. His photographs of mainstream and counterculture subjects include rock music icons, bodybuilders and prison inmates, cowboys and countercultural heroes. At centre is his exploration of the modern American West and the heart that beats there -- sometimes violently, often poetically. For over thirty years Hall has photographed and written about New Mexico’s unique mix of places and people, a broad representation including ancient sites and Spanish churches, Indian ceremonial dances, portraits of artists and writers, viejos and vagabonds. This book presents 182 black-and-white images accompanied by Hall's insightful essay on the interplay of artistic process with the cultural and natural landscapes of New Mexico. "In New Mexico Light" is a celebration of New Mexico’s contradictions and splendour through the photographs and words of a master observer. { 264pp, 250x300mm, November 2007; HB, £36.99, 0890135010:9780890135013 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION : The Art of Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez, & Florence Pierce [Essays by Tim Rogers, Marsha Bol, & Lucy Lippard] Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez and Florence Pierce are noted for producing simple, elegant and refined art that displays their quest for perfection. In Pursuit of Perfection brings these three New Mexico artists together for the first time, and demonstrates the remarkable quality of their art, and the incredible patience, skill and perseverance required for its creation. In Pursuit of Perfection is the catalogue from the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, which features over eighty pieces of pottery and paintings. { 102pp, 255x255mm, January 2005; PB, £13.50, 0967510686:9780967510682 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| INDIAN BASKETMAKERS OF CALIFORNIA & THE GREAT BASIN [Larry Dalrymple] This strong, handsome, informative and attractive book gives penetrating views of the richness of the traditions, the current state of the art and the beauty of the products. Arresting photos from historic sources as well as images of current baskets are well chosen and forceful. { 88pp, 230x295mm, July 2003; PB, £16.99, 0890133379:9780890133378 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| INDIAN BASKETMAKERS OF THE SOUTHWEST [Larry Dalrymple. Foreword by Susan Brown McGreevy] This strong, handsome, informative and attractive book gives penetrating views of the richness of the traditions, the current state of the art and the beauty of the products. Arresting photos from hisoric sources as well as images of current baskets are well chosen and forceful. { 140pp, 230x300mm, July 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890133387:9780890133385 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| JACK THORP'S SONGS OF THE COWBOYS [Mark L Gardner (ed); Illustrations by Ron Kil; Musical performances by Mark L Gardner & Rex Rideout] In 1908 a local rancher and surveyor by the name of N Howard 'Jack' Thorp walked into the cramped offices of the Estancia News in Estancia, New Mexico, and inquired of the printer about publishing a small book of 'cowboy songs'. For at least nineteen years, Thorp had sought out cowboy ballads and poems from across the west -- from New Mexico and Texas to Wyoming and Utah, and had written a few ditties himself. The finished volume, printed for just six cents a copy, included twenty-three songs and was the first book published devoted exclusively to cowboy songs. Thorp is recognised for being the first person to take a serious interest in collecting and preserving the ballads penned by ranchers to calm cattle on the range. This new edition of an oft-reprinted classic features an essay by western historian and musician Mark Gardner, and line illustrations by noted western artists and rancher Ron Kil. Included with the book is a CD of a recording of a selection of songs and poems taken from both the original 1908 edition and 1921 expanded second edition. In their renditions, Gardner and Rex Rideout recreate the historic music preserved by Thorp with vintage instruments and authentic styles. { 80pp, 170x255mm, August 2005; PB, £16.99, 0890134782:9780890134788 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| JEWISH PIONEERS OF NEW MEXICO [Tomas Jaehn (ed)] Against a backdrop of European unrest, immigration to America flourished in the nineteenth century for European Jews as for other groups. Two waves of immigration brought Jews to New Mexico, the first largely of German men in the 1840s and 1850s and the second of Eastern Europeans with the coming of the railroad to New Mexico in the 1880s. This book lights the drama that unfolded for these young Jewish merchants, tradesmen, in cases labourers, who were linked in their homeland through a complex web of intermarriage and who built quite successfully on their cultural and social relationships to become among New Mexico's most prominent, productive citizens. { 98pp, 230x280mm, January 2004; HB, £26.99, 0890134669:9780890134665 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| JOE H QUINTANA, MASTER IN METAL : Selections from the Irma Bailey Collection [Irma Bailey] During his lifetime, Joe Quintana was considered one of the most innovative and versatile Native silversmiths. Learning to work with metal as a shipyard welder during World War II, Quintana became a successful artist upon returning to his home at Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico. His unique designs, craftsmanship and attention to detail, as exemplified by the superlative collection featured here, captured the imagination of many collectors and dealers, earning him a place among the great 20th century silversmiths. Irma Bailey's superlative collection includes jewelry, small boxes and vases made by Quintana. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. Published by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. { 36pp, 230x215mm, January 2005; PB, £8.99, 0890134413:9780890134412 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| JOSE RABBIT'S SOUTHWEST ADVENTURES : An ABC Coloring Book with Spanish Words [Juan Alvarez] Text in English & Spanish. Jose Rabbit will take you on a great adventure to the American Southwest. Learn Spanish words and get to know different plants and animals while colouring the fun pictures of Jose [need an accent over the e] Rabbit's exciting trips and activities. { 30pp, 230x300mm, December 1993; PB, £2.99, 1878610007:9781878610003 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| KINGDOM OF SAINTS : Early Bultos of New Mexico [Michael O'Shaughnessy] Postcard Set. { 22pp, 175x125mm, January 1993; PC, £5.99, 187861035X:9781878610355 / PC, £5.99, 1878610368:9781878610362 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| LA CUENTISTA : Traditional Tales in Spanish & English [Teresa Pijoan] Text in English & Spanish. This unique collection of cuentos (traditional stories passed from generation to generation) offers an opportunity for readers to experience Hispanic culture and heritage as well as to discover the delight of storytelling. { 186pp, 140x215mm, December 1994; PB, £9.50, 1878610422:9781878610423 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| LAND SO REMOTE : Slipcased Edition [Larry Frank & Skip Miller] 3 books & slipcase. This three volume set is the most comprehensive visual document ever published of Spanish colonial and frontier artefacts of New Mexico. { 813pp, 160x295mm, December 2001; HB, £99.99, 1878610775:9781878610775 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| LAND, SKY, & ALL THAT IS WITHIN : Visionary Photographers in the Southwest [James L Enyeart] Presents the visions of numerous photographers who actually shaped the way we see and admire the rugged dry terrain of the American Southwest. The book traces ways of viewing the Southwestern landscape from early romanticism in photography to the modernists such as Edward Weston and Laura Gilpin. { 126pp, 203x203mm, July 2003; PB, £16.99, 0890133654:9780890133651 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LATIN AMERICAN POSTERS : Public Aesthetics & Mass Politics [Russ Davidson (ed)] Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars discuss how these icons of popular struggle united the masses and influenced political and social reform. { 188pp, 230x300mm, September 2006; PB, £23.50, 0890134928:9780890134924 / HB, £33.50, 0890134871:9780890134870 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LEGACY OF MARIA POVEKA MARTINEZ [Richard L Spivey] Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887-1981), is not only the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters but ranks among the best of international potters. Her work Is collected and exhibited around the world, and more than any other artist, Maria Martinez brought 'signatures' to Indian art. She and other members of her family revived a dying art form and kindled a renaissance in pottery for all the Pueblos. She raised this regional art to one of international acclaim. This lavishly illustrated book draws from Spivey's 1979 classic work. Featuring entirely new photography and 120 added pots as well as a significantly expanded text, this volume considers the entirety of this artist's immense oeuvre and important works and developments in her collaboration with Julian, and after his death, with her daughter-in-law Santana, son Popovi Da and grandson Tony Da, bringing the legacy of Maria into the bright future of Pueblo ceramics. { 208pp, 230x300mm, August 2007; PB, £26.99, 0890134200:9780890134207 / HB, £39.99, 0890134197:9780890134191 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LIFE! HOW I LOVE YOU! : Lily Finds Frida in the Museum of Fine Arts [Barbara Beasley Murphy] Frida Kahlo -- from inside a museum painting -- inspires twelve-year-old Lily LeRoy to use art to 'memorise' her dying sister and find a life she loves. Learning these lessons while becoming an artist herself, Lily negotiates a path through a terrible, blessed time and still find a life she loves. Ages 9 to 13 years. { 136pp, 140x215mm, March 2004; HB, £11.50, 0890134685:9780890134689 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LISTEN, A STORY COMES / ESCUCHA, QUE VIENE UN CUENTO : Bilingual Stories in Spanish & English [Teresa Pijoan] Text in English & Spanish. These lively stories from northern New Mexico blend elements from Native American, Latino, and Anglo sources and range from elaborate nursery rhymes to dark accounts of ghosts and spirits. { 204pp, 155x230mm, December 1996; PB, £9.99, 1878610597:9781878610591 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| LIVING SHRINES : Home Altars of New Mexico [Marie Romero Cash] The tradition of home shrines first began evolving in the American Southwest during the Mexican colonial period, when priests often travelled to homes to perform mass, novenas, baptisms, and marriages, a practice that continues today. This colourful book features the personal altars of mostly Hispanic families living in the towns and villages of northern New Mexico. Most are devoutly Catholic, and although Roman Catholic dogma does not officially recognise home shrines, the altar tradition for most Hispanos is a sign of being "Catholic from the heart". Their private altars allow for devotion in daily life, a practice embraced by those of all beliefs who desire personal sacred places to meditate, pray, or reflect. These portraits will serve as an inspiration for even the least devout among us desiring more spirituality in our lives. { 120pp, 230x230mm, October 1998; PB, £16.99, 0890133700:9780890133705 / HB, £29.99, 0890133697:9780890133699 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LORETTO : The Sisters & their Santa Fe Chapel [Mary J Straw Cook] The myth is the story of how the chapel acquired its spiral staircase through the intervention of a mysterious white-bearded carpenter who came in answer to the sister's prayers. The author has tracked down the mystery. While St Joseph may not have been directly involved, a miracle of sorts did bring Santa Fe this lovely small Gothic structure with stained glass windows. { 118pp, 170x255mm, July 2003; PB, £14.99, 0890133980:9780890133989 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LUIS TAPIA : Ay Que Vida! [Jacinto Quirarte & Andrew L Connors] Luis Eligio Tapia is one of the leading contemporary Hispanic artists in the united States. From the 1970s, when Tapia first began to paint his carved wood figures of saints, he has led the traditional carving and painting arts of New Mexico in bold new directions. Tapia's keen interpretations of modern culture and daily life in his native northern New Mexico are unexpected, ironic, colourful windows of culture that reflect the artist's abundant sense of humour and humanity. His work is irreverent, not out of disrespect for traditional culture or religion, but as a challenge to contemporary society in its encouragement of uniformity and elitist definitions of class, style and beauty. { 40pp, 216x273mm, January 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890134367:9780890134368 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LUIS TAPIA : ¡Ay, Que, Vida! Luis Eligio Tapia is one of the leading contemporary Hispanic artists in the United States. Tapia's keen interpretations of modern culture and daily life in his native northern New Mexico are unexpected, ironic, colourful windows on his culture. { 36pp, 215x275mm, January 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890134111:9780890134115 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MADCHILD RUNNING : A Novel [Keith Egawa] The story of a teenage girl caught up in the harrowing world of urban violence and of the young Native American man in his first job after college, as a social worker, who tries to save her. { 222pp, 155x230mm, December 1999; HB, £15.99, 1878610724:9781878610720 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| MAIOLICA OLE : Spanish & Mexican Decorative Traditions [Florence C Lister & Robert H Lister] Featuring the fine collection of 17th century to 19th century Spanish and Mexican maiolica at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, this book explores and celebrates Spanish traditional ceramics of Old and New Spain. Renowned ceramic expert Florence C. Lister and archaeologist Robert H. Lister studies one hundred and forty-four examples of historical maiolica in what is the first study of its kind tracing the decorative styles, influences and innovations in a ceramic tradition that is almost a millennium old. { 176pp, 230x265mm, June 2003; PB, £21.99, 0890133891:9780890133897 / HB, £33.50, 0890133883:9780890133880 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MAKING A HAND : Growing up Cowboy in New Mexico [Photographs by Gene Peach; Text by Max Evans; Introduction by Elmer Kelton] Ranching families reflect a deeply rooted agricultural tradition the day-to-day workings of which have changed little over generations. Many of these children are accomplished farm hands by the age of six or seven and already contributing members of the family business. In this world, work skills define one's identity, and 'making a hand' is the goal of every young cowboy/girl. This book is a tribute to the newest generation of ranchers growing up in New Mexico. Gene Peach has photographed girls and boys from fifty ranching families representing diverse cultural backgrounds, as they work cattle from horseback, perform routine ranch chores, and compete in rodeos. Veteran western writer and cowboy Max Evans writes about his own experiences growing up on a ranch and ponders the realities threatening the continuation of the family ranch. Making a Hand is a testament to a remarkable generation of New Mexico residents continuing a legendary and honourable lifestyle. { 160pp, 285x275mm, October 2005; HB, £26.99, 0890134766:9780890134764 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MARIA PAINTS THE HILLS [Pat Mora. Paintings by Maria Hesch] Ages 4 years & over. To frame the narrative paintings of the late folk artist Maria Hesch, poet Mora has invented a simple story of a child in New Mexico: her daily life with her working-class mother and her imaginative play. Mora's plain words are eloquent, but the story does little more than say what the child sees. It's the pictures that are the focus here. Hesch's folk narratives have adult as well as child appeal, and the high-quality reproductions capture the warm interiors of the child's home and the New Mexican landscape through the seasons. Art classes will want this. { 32pp, 215x260mm, July 2003; PB, £6.99, 0890134103:9780890134108 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MAS ANTES : Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley [Nasario Garcia] In this book about long ago, the author once again ventures onto his natural habitat, the Rio Puerco, and prepares the stage for his beloved Muddy River gente. { 187pp, 140x215mm, July 2003; PB, £8.99, 0890133239:9780890133231 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MASKS OF MEXICO : Tigers, Devils & the Dance of Life [Barbara Mauldin] This is a state-by-state guide for collectors and general folk art enthusiasts to learn about the types of masked dances still carried out in Mexico's Indian and mestizo communities today. Close to one-hundred colour photographs of authenticated masks from the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art are presented, including finely carved pieces from the 19th century to simple face coverings made in the past ten years. The masked ceremonies are brought to life with documentary photographs showing masqueraders acting out their roles. { 118pp, 215x270mm, February 1999; PB, £19.99, 0890133255:9780890133255 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MASTERWORKS FROM THE HEARD MUSEUM : 3 Volume Set [Heard Museum] 3 books in slipcase. Great close-up colour pictures and the fine layout ease the reading of the valuable essays and short statements on the art. Museum specialists wrote the introduction sections on pottery and baskets, beading and jewellery, and fine arts, and overviews of the sources of the collections. In three volumes: Hold Everything! Masterworks of Basketry and Pottery (72 pages, 120 colour photos); Be Dazzled! Masterworks of Jewelry and Beadwork (80 pages, 120 colour photos); So Fine! Masterworks of Fine Art (64 pages, 53 colour photos). { 216pp, 215x255mm, July 2003; PB, £36.99, 0934351678:9780934351676 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE DESERT & CANYON WEST [Michael Moore] Michael Moore's celebrated companion guides comprehensively cover the entire range of medicinal herbs found in New Mexico, Arizona, West Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and the California desert. "Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West" is the long-established classic work on medicinal herbs of the Western uplands. An authoritative presentation of more than 100 species, it is unsurpassed as a field guide and for its authoritative information on collection and medicinal preparation. "Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West" focuses on the plant life of rocky and arid lands of the West, and includes even more detailed information on the preparation and use of these vital herbs. { 184pp, 140x210mm, August 2003; PB, £11.50, 0890131821:9780890131824 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE MOUNTAIN WEST : Second Edition [Michael Moore] In the first update since the original printing in 1979, renowned herbalist Michael Moore adds another 20 years of research and expertise working with medicinal plants to his classic 'Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West'. In this greatly expanded (168 additional pages) revised and enlarged edition, the book covers the entire range of medicinal herbs found in New Mexico, Arizona, west Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and California. { 351pp, 155x230mm, August 2003; PB, £16.99, 0890134545:9780890134542 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC WEST [Michael Moore] A perennial favourite, "Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West" is a user-friendly guide to over 300 species of plants geographically ranging from Baja California to Alaska. { 360pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £14.99, 1878610317:9781878610317 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| MEXICAN MODERN : Masters of the 20th Century [Luis-Martin Lozano & David Craven] The Mexican Revolution of 1910 erupted with its century, the first great social movement of the era. When the dust had settled, it was the artists and intellectuals who were called upon to articulate a new vision for the country's future, and thus began the Mexican renaissance that exuberantly brought together modernism with the cultural identity of a new nationalism. Presented in this catalogue are works by Los Tres Grandes: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, along with important works by artists less well known outside Mexico, such as Saturnino Herran, Abraham Angel, Fermin Revueltas, Gabriel fernandez Ledesma, Antonio Ruiz, and many others. Mexican women artists represented include Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo and Olga Costa. Complementing the oil painters is a small group of vintage photographs by Edward Weston, Tino Modotti and Mnauel Bravo, who exemplify the avant-garde photography that appeared during the Mexican renaissance. { 104pp, 240x305mm, June 2006; PB, £19.99, 0890134901:9780890134900 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MILAGROS : Votive Offerings from the Americans [Martha Egan] A driving force in folk religion, milagros or ex-votos, are found in cathedrals, humble chapels in rural areas and roadside shrines across Latin America. This book traces the use and artistry of these small objects, which are offered to saints and other popular deities by Latin Americans in return for favours or answered prayers. { 120pp, 175x205mm, July 2003; PB, £13.50, 0890132208:9780890132203 / HB, 0890132194:9780890132197 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MIMBRES CLASSIC MYSTERIES : Reconstructing A Lost Culture Through Its Pottery [Tom Steinbach Sr] Industrial designer Tom Steinbach recreates the remarkable and colourful poetry designs of Mimbres classic culture (ad1000-1150) in seventy-five digitally produced renderings that uniquely depict evidence of Mimbres life, culture and environment. In addition to the remarkable motif interpretations, the author uses the designs to sketch out additional information about this culture, including hypothesising about the Mimbres view of nature, and the artists themselves. { 172pp, 200x230mm, September 2002; PB, £19.99, 0890134006:9780890134009 / HB, £29.99, 0890134081:9780890134085 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MODERN BY TRADITION : American Indian Painting in the Studio Style [Bruce Bernstein & W Jackson Rushing] Kansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established America's first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American painters have been celebrated as the first modernists. Reproduced here are over ninety paintings by such prominent artists and former students as Pablita Velarde, Joe H Herrera, Allan Houser and Pop Chalee. { 176pp, 250x280mm, November 1995; PB, £19.99, 0890132917:9780890132913 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| MODERNISTS IN TAOS : From Dasburg to Martin [Elizabeth J Cunningham] Modernists in Taos look at the art colony of Taos, New Mexico, focusing on the pivotal modernist painters that included John Marin, Hans Hoffman, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, and Mark Rothko. { 280pp, 250x300mm, December 2002; HB, £33.50, 1878610783:9781878610782 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| MONTANA HOMETOWN RODEO [Joanne Berghold & Kim Zupan] Stirring black-and-white photographs of spectators and participants provide an unsentimental, hometown view of Montana's small-town rodeo circuit. For anyone who ever wanted to be a cowgirl or cowboy -- or for anyone just in love with the West -- this book will bring to you the sound of pounding hooves, the slap of leather, the smell of dust and of cheering crowds. { 128pp, 280x230mm, March 2004; HB, £21.99, 0890134693:9780890134696 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NATIVE AMERICAN PICTURE BOOKS OF CHANGE : The Art of Historic Children's Editions [Rebecca C Benes] Illustrated with 150 enchanting paintings and historical photographs, some from as early as 1922, the author describes the history and motivation behind some of the most exceptional children's books published in the U.S. These picture book readers, originally developed for use in Indian schools during the New Deal, represent the first Native-centred texts used in Bureau of Indian Affairs curriculum. They were written by lauded writers, ethnologists and linguists, and illustrated with the stunning work of emerging and prominent Native American artists. { 168pp, 280x230mm, April 2004; HB, £29.99, 0890134715:9780890134719 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NATURAL BY DESIGN : Beauty & Balance in Southwestern Gardens [Judith Phillips] Landscape gardening involves a partnership between gardener and environment and an understanding of why and how plants grow where they do. Phillips takes the reader on an illustrated garden tour through the rich ecosystems of the Southwest and into gardens she has designed in the upland forests, shrub/desert grasslands, riparian oases, and arid city plots. Her plant palette includes native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses, and embraces dozens of adaptive plants that will flourish in the demanding conditions of the upland and desert West. { 200pp, 250x250mm, July 2003; PB, £23.50, 0890132771:9780890132777 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKETS : Textiles to Ride in the American West [Lane Coulter (ed)] Navajo saddle blankets are among the most under-appreciated art forms in the American Southwest, the Cinderella of Navajo textiles. Saddle blankets have played a key role in Navajo life both as utilitarian objects and as a force in the economic sustainability of modern Navajo life. They represent a material link between Navajo weavers and traders. This modest textile has found a context in the cattle industry, inside rural cabins, on the floors of eastern bungalows, on the walls of art museums, and even on horseback. It has served countless cultural and utilitarian demands placed on it over the last century and a half, with no sunset in sight. { 144pp, 225x280mm, December 2002; PB, £19.99, 0890134073:9780890134078 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NAVAJO SPOONS : Indian Artistry & the Souvenir Trade, 1880s-1940s [Cindra Kline] Profusely illustrated with stunning photographs of over 500 profile and figural spoons along with historical images, this book is the first to examine the production of silver spoons by Navajo artisans beginning in the 1880s and continuing to World War II. The silversmiths brought the highest level of skill and invention to functional teaspoons, servers, and sugar shells, sought after by travellers to the Southwest and traders. Many of the rare spoons are engraved with dates and names. { 118pp, 205x230mm, September 2001; PB, £18.50, 0890133913:9780890133910 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW KINGDOM OF THE SAINTS : Religious Art of NM 1780-1907 [Larry Frank & Skip Miller] This elegant art book illustrates the development of religious art in northern New Mexico over an active period of 150 years. { 320pp, 230x300mm, December 1992; HB, £49.99, 187861018X:9781878610188 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| NEW COOKING FROM OLD MEXICO [James Peyton] A fun and fascinating cookbook of Mexican cooking, tracing its development over the last 500 years from Mayan and Aztec to later Arab and Spanish influences. { 298pp, 210x235mm, December 1999; HB, £19.99, 1878610708:9781878610706 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| NEW MEXICAN POETRY RENAISSANCE [Sharon Niederman & Miriam Sagan] This anthology incorporates biographies and work by forty-one of New Mexico's finest poets representing diverse cultural backgrounds. { 224pp, 155x230mm, December 1994; PB, £9.99, 1878610414:9781878610416 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| NEW MEXICO ARTISTS AT WORK [Photographs by Jack Parsons; Text by Dana Newmann; Foreword by Joseph Traugott] Through photos 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 photos document a range of creative approaches, both practical and aesthetic, that these artists bring to the task of organising and inhabiting their creative spaces. { 168pp, 240x270mm, April 2005; HB, £26.99, 0890134391:9780890134399 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW MEXICO COLCHA CLUB : Spanish Colonial Embroidery & the Women Who Saved It [Nancy C Benson] This book looks at the history, beauty, and various styles of New Mexico colcha enbroidery, and tells the uplifting story of how a small group of determined women revived a Hispanic cultural tradition destined for extinction. { 156pp, 140x200mm, October 2008; PB, £23.50, 0890135193:9780890135198 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW MEXICO ROUTE 66 ON TOUR : Legendary Architecture from Glenrio to Gallup [Don J Usner] This travel narrative goes beyond the roadside neon, using architecture as a means to explore the cultural and historical context of Route 66 in New Mexico. { 108pp, 180x230mm, July 2003; PB, £9.50, 0890133867:9780890133866 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW MEXICO STYLE : A Sourcebook of Traditional Architectural Details, Second Edition [Nancy Hunter Warren] Since its original publication, architects, builders, re-modellers, and lovers of the distinctive architectural styles of Santa Fe and the region have depended on this book for its authoritative information and aesthetic inspiration. { 166pp, 220x300mm, July 1995; PB, £23.50, 0890132798:9780890132791 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW MEXICO TREASURES 2009 ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR From ceremonial dances, music festivals and rodeos to Indian Market, Spanish Market and the Hatch Chile Festival. Showcasing celebrated New Mexico photographers with stunning images of the state's cultural and natural landscapes, this calendar is a must-have for New Mexico aficionados. { 205x205mm, June 2008; CA, £9.50, 0890135126:9780890135129 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NEW MEXICO'S PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS : History of an American Treasure [Emily Abbink] One of America’s oldest public buildings of European origin, the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe celebrates its quatrocentennial in photographs, drawings, lithographs, and maps: the story of New Spain and four centuries of change. This lively pictorial drama for all ages sets the Palace as the historical stage upon which the major events of four hundred years are played, from the arrival of the first conquistadors and the founding of New Spain's capital to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Mexican War, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail that ushered in the Anglo period, the Civil War and the coming of the railroad, Hewett and the founding of the Museum of New Mexico, and the archaeology of the twentieth century. Until 1909 a governor’s residence, the Palace remains a royal house for all who visit. A National Historic Landmark and international tourist destination, the Palace of the Governors is a fine example of Spanish Colonial architecture, and much detail of the building’s Spanish, Mexican, and Territorial periods is in evidence today. Restoration and archaeology together have revealed the worth of this significant historic artefact that welcomes visitors into period rooms re-created with elements of the Palace’s illustrious past, complete with period furnishings and museum-quality collections. { 124pp, 230x210mm, August 2007; PB, £19.99, 0890135002:9780890135006 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NIHANCAN'S FEAST OF BEAVER : Animal Tales of the North American Indians [Edward Lavitt & Robert McDowell] For ages 8+. In Indian cultures all life is considered valuable and sacred and is a part of the powerful spiritual forces of nature. This collection of 36 animal tales, from the nine culture groups of North American Indians, tells stories about the behaviours and actions of humans, and the supernaturals that inhabit their world. { 120pp, 230x230mm, July 2003; PB, £8.99, 0890132119:9780890132111 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NORTH ALASKA CHRONICLES : Notes from the End of Time [John M Campbell] This remarkable collaboration between an anthropologist and a Nunamiut Eskimo tribesman offers a rare, often poignant glimpse into history, legends, lore material culture and daily life of a traditional society that no longer exists. Simon Paneak's drawings constitute the heart of the book depicting from a memory a way of life that in a very short time had been lost irretrievably. { 160pp, 216x280mm, July 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890133549:9780890133545 / HB, £29.99, 0890133530:9780890133538 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| NUEVO MEXICO PROFUNDO : Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland [Enrique R Lamadrid et al] In this book, award-winning photographer Miguel Gandert records the sacred rituals and dances of the mestizo peoples of the upper Río Grande in 130 exquisite black-and-white photographs. Included are images of the two great Indo-Hispano regional traditions, the Matachines conquest dance drama, complete with monsters and bull, and the multifaceted Comanches celebration, with its equestrian victory play and boisterous dances. The image and story of Our Lady of Guadalupe are in evidence everywhere in a sacred landscape criss-crossed with procession and pilgrimage. Four essays provide the background for viewing Gandert's work. Enrique R Lamadrid presents the folkloric context for the rituals and dances, tracing the mixture of Indian and Hispanic elements in the public celebrations performed today in towns and villages all along the Río Grande. Ramón A Gutiérrez examines how the Río Grande culture travelled up and down the river, defying international borders. Lucy R Lippard discusses the social relations among participants in Gandert's photographs-the subjects, the viewers, and the photographer himself. Chris Wilson provides biographical information on Gandert and traces the development of his aesthetic. { 180pp, 255x270mm, July 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890133492:9780890133491 / HB, £33.50, 0890133484:9780890133484 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| OAXACA CELEBRATION : Family, Food, & Fiestas in Teotitlán [Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza] Almost twenty years ago, a young Canadian woman, Mary Jane Gagnier, travelled through Mexico on a journey of self-exploration. One evening on the zócaló in Oaxaca, she met a weaver from the nearby village of Teotitlan del Valle, who offered his uncles' help in repairing her broken clarinet. Shortly thereafter the two were married, and rather instantly the Ontario native with wanderlust found herself intimately immersed in the culture and traditions of her new home. Fiestas are synonymous with Mexico and daily ceremonial rituals and celebrations are at the center of Oaxaca's spiritual and social life. Gagnier de Mendoza chronicles the festival cycle in Teotitlán, a Zapotec village located fifteen miles from the capitol. The fiestas here center on the complex art of hosting, whether for family gatherings or religious ceremonies that involves traditional cooking and flower arranging, candle making and fireworks. Throughout the year, village brass bands regularly line the streets in processions featuring plumed dancers and masked actors. Beginning with Christmas posadas through Fiesta of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, pre-wedding and wedding celebrations, Lent and Holy Week, post-Easter revelry celebrating the patron saints, to the conclusion of the festival cycle with Day of the Dead, this memoir chronicles the spirit-life of an ancient community that day after day honors its gods as itself. { 160pp, 190x285mm, October 2005; PB, £16.99, 0890134456:9780890134450 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| OLD TRADITIONS IN NEW POTS : Silver Seed Pots from the Norman L Sandfield Collection [Tricia Loscher; Foreword by Martha Streuver] The work of over seventy Native artists who create miniature silver seed pots is presented in this publication featuring over 240 examples from the Norman L Sandfield Collection at the Heard Museum. As an art form, these miniatures draw on the ancient tradition of ceramic containers that protected the seeds of agricultural plants on which people’s lives depended. Following in the more recent tradition of miniaturisation, these silver vessels represent the work of some of the finest silversmiths working today, including White Buffalo (Mike Perez), Ric Charlie, Bernard Dawahoya, Anthony Lovato, and Darrell Jumbo. Over seventy silver pots are the creation of award-winning Navajo silversmith Norbert Peshlakai. Curator Tricia Loscher interviewed the artists, discussing their approaches to this new art form and the inspiration for their designs. In a foreword by noted Southwestern scholar Martha Struever, she describes her involvement with the art form and her introduction of collector Norman L. Sandfield to the beauty in silver miniatures. { 134pp, 205x260mm, August 2007; PB, £16.99, 0934351791:9780934351799 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| ON BEHALF OF THE WOLF & THE FIRST PEOPLES [Joseph Marshall III] An important book for those who love the West and are concerned about the natural world and the sacredness of all life (not just human beings). Joseph Marshall III also addresses issues common to contemporary Native Americans, such as the definition of 'Indian art' and the stereotypical Indian portrayed in film. { 235pp, 140x220mm, December 1995; PB, £9.50, 0890135169:9780890135167 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| ONE HUNDRED ASPECTS OF THE MOON : Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi [Tamara Tjardes] Yoshitoshi (1839-92) was the last great woodblock print master of the Ukiyo-e tradition, and 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' is regarded as his greatest achievement. The only complete set of the series, in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, provides for the exquisite reproductions in this popular book on 19th century Japan's most mainstream art amusement. Yoshitoshi was born in the city of Edo (Tokyo) shortly before Japan's violent transformations from a medieval to a modern society. He was keenly interested in preserving traditional Japanese culture against the inclusions of modernism, and his prints celebrate the glory of Japan in its mythology, literature, history, the warrior culture, and fine woodblock print tradition. This book will appeal to a broad audience of connoisseurs as well as the many who cultivate an interest in Japanese art. { 112pp, 255x205mm, March 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890134383:9780890134382 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| PAINTER'S KITCHEN : Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe [Margaret Wood] One-of-its-kind collection of recipes from famous art icon, Georgia O'Keeffe. Tasty recipes are paired with charming details of Ms. O'Keeffe's outlook on food, philosophy, life, art, and the world. { 108pp, 210x230mm, December 2001; PB, £9.99, 1878610619:9781878610614 , Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) } |
| PASSIONS IN PRINT : Private Press Artistry in New Mexico, 1834-Present [Pamela S Smith & Richard Polese] Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colourful story of New Mexico's book artists and their dedication to a timeless craft. Profiles 29 presses and artists including Gustave Baumann, Willard Clark, and Linnea Gentry. Companion to 'Lasting Impressions' exhibition on display at the Palace of the Governors (Museum of New Mexico). { 224pp, 204x267mm, January 2006; HB, £29.99, 0890134790:9780890134795 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| PLANTS FOR NATURAL GARDENS : Southwestern Native & Adaptive Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers & Grasses [Judith Phillips] This companion book to 'Natural by Design' concentrates on over two hundred plants, individually photographed and profiled. The key to any successful garden is knowing the plants, the conditions that nurture them, and the care that must be taken in their propagation, cultivation, transplanting, and pruning. Knowing the native and adaptive plants of the region and how best to use them in the landscape will enable the gardener to create gardens of self-sustaining beauty. { 148pp, 250x250mm, July 2003; PB, £18.50, 089013281X:9780890132814 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| POP FLOP'S GREAT BALLOON RIDE [Nancy Abruzzo; Illustrations by Noel Chilton] For ages 4-8. Pop Flop is up and away in a big balloon high in the sky! It is Balloon Fiesta time and the sky is filled with hot-air balloons of all shapes and colours. Look, a huge bumble bee balloon! And there's a giant cat and a balloon like the planet earth! Pop Flop looks down from his lofty ride and sees his friends Mary Pat and Rico waving. Pop Flop's great balloon adventure begins on a chilly October morning: Get up! It's time to see the balloons! Soon there's fire in the sky like dragon's breath as the first hot-air balloons take to the skies: it's the dawn patrol! Mary Pat begs her father to take her up but instead she sends Pop Flop. "He can see the whole world now!" { 32pp, 235x285mm, October 2005; BB, £8.99, 0890134758:9780890134757 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| POTTERY OF SANTA ANA PUEBLO [Francis H Harlow, Duane Anderson & Dwight P Lanmon] The small village of Santa Ana Pueblo in north-central New Mexico has for centuries made distinctive pottery for domestic and ritual use. In this book, the authors relate new ideas about the evolution of pottery styles made at Santa Ana and compare these styles with those found elsewhere in the Pueblo ceramic tradition. In particular, this richly visual study describes the chronological sequence of forms and designs based on evidence not heretofore available. The book analyses the sequence from the earliest date, circa 1760, when positive evidence of Santa Ana origin can be identified, through the end of pottery making for local use about 1925 through various revivals to the present time. The pottery of Santa Ana Pueblo exemplifies the fine artistic achievement that has brought Pueblo ceramics worldwide acclaim. In this study, Pueblo pottery authority Francis H Harlow, along with anthropologist Duane Anderson and historian Dwight P Lanmon, provides an original and groundbreaking investigation into the origins and evolution of this pueblo's exemplary pottery. The result furnishes criteria for dating any vessel that comes to hand. A chapter on the recognised potters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries recounts efforts to keep pottery traditions alive for future working potters. { 185pp, 230x280mm, April 2005; HB, £29.99, 0890134375:9780890134375 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| POTTERY OF ZUNI PUEBLO [Dwight P Lanmon & Francis H Harlow] The authors examine fine and rare exmaples of pots -- many of which are from private collections -- in terms of forms and esigns from the ancient antecedents of Zuni pottery to the contemporary work being produced today. The definitive treatment of the extraordinarily popular Zuni Pueblo's long and complex ceramic tradition, this book sets the gold standard and will be an indispensable reference for researchers, collectors, native arts enthusiasts, archaeologists, and visitors to the Southwest. { 604pp, 235x285mm, June 2008; HB, £99.99, 0890135088:9780890135082 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE & MODERN ADOBES : The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins [Joseph Traugott] 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. { 116pp, 280x230mm, January 1998; PB, £19.99, 0890133670:9780890133675 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| PUEBLO ARTISTS : Portraits [Toba Pato Tucker] Toba Tucker's expressive portraits honouring Pueblo artists were made over a two-and-a-half year sojourn in the Southwest. These photographs form a record for history and art at the end of the twentieth century and portray Tucker's interest in the individuals and families who pass their artistic traditions from one generation to the next. The portraits reflect the sense of belonging that she so evidently found among the people who welcomed her into their homes, and they attest to her abiding respect and deep appreciation for the native traditions that continue to carry the Pueblo spirit. { 166pp, 240x310mm, July 2003; PB, £23.50, 0890133646:9780890133644 / HB, £36.99, 0890133638:9780890133637 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| PUEBLO INDIAN COOKBOOK : Over One Hundred & Thirty Authentic Kitchen Tested Recipes! [Phyllis Hughes] With over 90,000 copies sold to date, this bestselling cookbook and curio is the definitive collection of Pueblo Indian cookery. REVIEW: "It is a testimony to this classic work that it can be found on the shelves of many Pueblo kitchens..." -- International Cookbook Review. { 64pp, 230x100mm, July 2003; PB, £7.99, 0890130949:9780890130940 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| RAIN : Native Expressions from the American Southwest [Ann Marshall] Exploring the relationship between rain -- the desert's oldest miracle -- and indigenous people of the arid and semi-arid south west, this lavishly illustrated book highlights pieces from the exemplary collection of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. { 144pp, 215x280mm, July 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890133441:9780890133446 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| RECORDING A VANISHING LEGACY : The Historic American Building Survey in New Mexico, 1933-Today [James C Massey et al] Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation of historic buildings throughout the US. This is a complete history of HABS in New Mexico, an on-going project dedicated to the preservation of four centuries of architecture. The starting point for a more profound understanding of New Mexico legacy of historic architecture and a renewed effort to preserve what remains. { 147pp, 305x230mm, January 2001; PB, £19.99, 0890133808:9780890133804 / HB, £29.99, 0890133794:9780890133798 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| RED EARTH : Poems of New Mexico [Alice Corbin] Alice Corbin (1881-1949) was part of an inner circle of writers and artists on the national scene in the early twentieth century. Corbin lived and worked as a writer in Chicago prior to moving to New Mexico for health reasons. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Corbin was a frequent contributor to publications including the 'Chicago Tribune' and the 'Saturday Evening Post', and worked as assistant editor at 'Poetry: A Magazine of Verse' (a publication still in existence). Corbin published several works of poetry in her lifetime. Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico, originally published in 1920 and long unavailable, was a radical book for its time, drawing on poetic techniques of Native American myths and Hispanic culture. This new edition includes a biographical sketch of Corbin's life and contributions to art and culture. It is illustrated with 29 masterworks, including works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Dasburg, and Alfred Stieglitz, from the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. { 112pp, 155x230mm, July 2003; HB, £11.50, 0890134502:9780890134504 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| RICHARD DIEBENKORN IN NEW MEXICO [Mark Lavatelli, Gerald Nordland & Charles Strong; Foreword by Charles Lovell] Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits energies of freedom, freshness, and spontaneity and has inferences of landscape. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of this New Mexico period, and investigates the critical role it played in Diebenkorn's exploration of the idiom of abstraction and the maturation of his art. It also demonstrates how New Mexico's desert landscape and light affected Diebenkorn's artistic route toward figurative painting and the landscape-inspired abstractions of his greatly acclaimed "Ocean Park" series. Companion to an exhibition to open at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos,New Mexico, this book offers not only stunning reproductions of the artist's work but also important new research into the life of one of the creative giants of the second half of the twentieth century. Published in association with the Harwood Museum of Art. { 154pp, 260x320mm, June 2007; HB, £33.50, 0890134987:9780890134986 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| RIVER APART : The Pottery of Cochiti & Santo Domingo Pueblos [Valerie Verzuh] This publication is companion to an exhibition opening at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe in Fall 2008 and featuring over 300 Santo Domingo and Cochiti pots. It focuses on the differences in pottery design of two neighbouring New Mexican pueblos, Cochiti & Santo Domingo, located south of Santa Fe and north of Albuquerque. A valuable addition to the libraries of those interested in Pueblo Indian pottery, Native American arts and culture, and south-western history and anthropology. { 192pp, 230x270mm, October 2008; HB, £29.99, 0890135223:9780890135228 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| ROCK ART IN NEW MEXICO : Featuring National Sites at Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, Mesa Verde & the Gila Wilderness [Polly Schaafsma] Schaafsma's classic work on New Mexico rock art is available once again in this extensively revised edition to incorporate the latest theories and publications regarding New Mexico rock art, while still retaining the original format. The revisions include new discussions of Las Imagines (Albuquerque's West Mesa Site), and the significance of the Rio Grande Style for illuminating the history of the kachina cult and other aspects of Pueblo religion. The chapters present the material by geographic region, covering the northeast, the south, the Upper Rio Grande, and the east and southern high plains. Styles discussed include the Chihuahuan Polychrome Abstract, Desert Abstract Petroglyphs, Mogollon Red Paintings, Reserve Style, Jornada Style, Apache, Rio Grande, Navajo, Anasazi, and Later Pueblos. Profusely illustrated with many high quality black-and-white photographs. { 175pp, 215x280mm, July 2003; PB, £19.99, 0890132321:9780890132326 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| SAN CRISTOBEL : Voices & Visions of the Galisteo Basin [Christina S Mednick] This anthropological and historical study delves into the San Cristobel Ranch in the archaeology-rich Galisteo Basin that has seen centuries of human history and prehistory in lavish photography and lucidly written text. It captures the tale of New Mexico in all its expansive richness -- a beauty of a book, full of archival and landscape photos. { 272pp, 280x254mm, July 2003; PB, £23.50, 0890132941:9780890132944 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| SANTA FE CHRISTMAS [Christine Mather] The author of the bestselling title -- and, indeed, populariser of - 'Santa Fe Style' (Rizzoli 2001), shares the Christmas traditions of her hometown, capturing the inimitable spirit of Santa Fe in December in over 100 full-colour photographs of holiday scenes. { 96pp, 165x165mm, October 2003; HB, £9.99, 0890134634:9780890134634 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| SANTA FE ORIGINALS : Women of Distinction [Athi-Mara Magadi] Centuries before Santa Fe declared itself to the world as a centre of art and style, it was establishing the values and traditions that attracted trend-setters and travellers. Several years in the making and much anticipated, this book represents a photographic ‘Who's Who' of contemporary |