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Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya מאת 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 A...

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Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio מאת Jimmy Santiago Baca Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet....

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New Mexico Colcha Club: Spanish Colonial Embroidery & the Women Who Saved It מאת Nancy C. Benson This book looks at the history, beauty, and various styles of New Mexico colcha embroidery, and tells the uplifting story of how a small group of determined women revived a Hispanic cultural tradition destined for extinction....

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Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico מאת Gerald Nordland Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico is the first comprehensive overview of internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn's New Mexico period, which greatly influenced his artistic maturation. Features 86 seminal works from the early period of this internationally acclaimed artist....

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Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politics מאת David Craven 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 influenc...

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Grave Images: San Luis Valley מאת Kathy T. Hettinga Beginning in 1994, award-winning photographer and installation artist Kathy T Hettinga began a fourteen-year project to document an unknown body of funerary folk art displayed in the cemeteries of rural and largely Hispanic communities in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Her photographs of ...

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Guitars and Adobes, and the Uncollected Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez מאת Angelico Chavez Fray Angelico Chavez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. This rare collection of writings combines Chavez's early fiction with his little-known novel "Guitars and Adobes", originally published in 1931-32 in serialised form. The novel presents an alter...

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Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection מאת Shelby Jo-anne Tisdale The book presents the jewelry colection through its founding collector Millicent Rogers, bringing to life the Taos she discovered in the late 1940s and showcasing the authentic, classic-era jewerly that she collected when Fred Harvey and others were popularizing Indian-made tourist pieces. Thi...

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The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo מאת Dwight P. Lanmon The authors examine fine and rare examples of pots - many of which are from private collections - in terms of forms and ensigns 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 c...