Author: Mary Carroll Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"The founding of New Mexico's famous art colony and its pioneer artists"--Jacket subtitle.
The Legendary Artists of Taos
Author: Mary Carroll Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"The founding of New Mexico's famous art colony and its pioneer artists"--Jacket subtitle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"The founding of New Mexico's famous art colony and its pioneer artists"--Jacket subtitle.
The Taos Society of Artists
Author: Robert Rankin White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
Author: Dean A. Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826321091
Category : Art patronage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-illustrated study of the patronage that allowed the fledging art colony in northern New Mexico to flourish.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826321091
Category : Art patronage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-illustrated study of the patronage that allowed the fledging art colony in northern New Mexico to flourish.
The King of Taos
Author: Max Evans
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 082636165X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The underground world of con men, winos, prostitutes, laborers, and artists has been an abundant source of material for great writers from Dickens to Bukowski. The underground world of Taos, New Mexico, is no different. In the late 1950s this mountain town was higher, brighter, poorer, and farther removed than London, Paris, or Los Angeles, but it was every bit as rich for the explorations of a young writer. Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos. Set in the late 1950s, the novel tells the stories of sharp-witted Zacharias Chacon, aspiring artist Shaw Spencer, and a circle of characters who drink, fight, love, argue, and—mostly—talk. Readers will enjoy this witty and moving evocation of unforgettable characters as they look for work, love, comfort, dignity, and bottomless oblivion.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 082636165X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The underground world of con men, winos, prostitutes, laborers, and artists has been an abundant source of material for great writers from Dickens to Bukowski. The underground world of Taos, New Mexico, is no different. In the late 1950s this mountain town was higher, brighter, poorer, and farther removed than London, Paris, or Los Angeles, but it was every bit as rich for the explorations of a young writer. Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos. Set in the late 1950s, the novel tells the stories of sharp-witted Zacharias Chacon, aspiring artist Shaw Spencer, and a circle of characters who drink, fight, love, argue, and—mostly—talk. Readers will enjoy this witty and moving evocation of unforgettable characters as they look for work, love, comfort, dignity, and bottomless oblivion.
Frida in America
Author: Celia Stahr
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250113393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250113393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.
Literary Pilgrims
Author: Lynn Cline
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826338518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Illuminates both the well- and lesser-known literary figures of New Mexico, whose collaborative efforts created enduring literary colonies. This book also discusses fifteen writers and concludes with walking and driving tours of Santa Fe and Taos.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826338518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Illuminates both the well- and lesser-known literary figures of New Mexico, whose collaborative efforts created enduring literary colonies. This book also discusses fifteen writers and concludes with walking and driving tours of Santa Fe and Taos.
Ernest L. Blumenschein
Author: Robert W. Larson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson begin their life of “Blumy” with his Ohio childhood and trace his development as an artist from early study in Cincinnati, New York City, and Paris through his first career as a book and magazine illustrator. Blumenschein and artist Bert G. Phillips discovered the budding art community of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898. In 1915 the two along with Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, and other like-minded artists organized the Taos Society of Artists, famous for preferring American subjects over European themes popular at the time. Leaving illustration work behind, Blumenschein sought a distinctive place in his American homeland and in fine-art painting. He moved with his family to Taos in 1919 and began his long career as a figurative and landscape painter, becoming prominent among American artists for his Pueblo Indian figures and stunning southwestern landscapes. Robert Larson calls Blumenschein a “transformational artist,” trained classically but drawing to a limited degree on abstract representation. Placing Blumy’s life in the context of World War I, the Great Depression, and other national and world events, the authors show how an artistic genius turned a fascination with the people, light, and color of New Mexico into a body of work of lasting significance to the international art world.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson begin their life of “Blumy” with his Ohio childhood and trace his development as an artist from early study in Cincinnati, New York City, and Paris through his first career as a book and magazine illustrator. Blumenschein and artist Bert G. Phillips discovered the budding art community of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898. In 1915 the two along with Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, and other like-minded artists organized the Taos Society of Artists, famous for preferring American subjects over European themes popular at the time. Leaving illustration work behind, Blumenschein sought a distinctive place in his American homeland and in fine-art painting. He moved with his family to Taos in 1919 and began his long career as a figurative and landscape painter, becoming prominent among American artists for his Pueblo Indian figures and stunning southwestern landscapes. Robert Larson calls Blumenschein a “transformational artist,” trained classically but drawing to a limited degree on abstract representation. Placing Blumy’s life in the context of World War I, the Great Depression, and other national and world events, the authors show how an artistic genius turned a fascination with the people, light, and color of New Mexico into a body of work of lasting significance to the international art world.
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942884873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942884873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.
Taos Portraits
Author: Paul O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984031900
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographs in Taos Portraits capture sixty subjects in black and white. Among others, Larry Bell, Bob Ellis, Gus Foster, Dennis Hopper, Ken Price, Tony Reyna, Mark Romero, Dean Stockwell, Maye Torres, and Carmen Velarde represent O'Connor's cross-cultural and cross-generational reminiscence of the Taos art community. Editor Bill Whaley worked with the writers to record their impressions in short narratives, which the Taos News called "funny, poignant, and revealing anecdotes."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984031900
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographs in Taos Portraits capture sixty subjects in black and white. Among others, Larry Bell, Bob Ellis, Gus Foster, Dennis Hopper, Ken Price, Tony Reyna, Mark Romero, Dean Stockwell, Maye Torres, and Carmen Velarde represent O'Connor's cross-cultural and cross-generational reminiscence of the Taos art community. Editor Bill Whaley worked with the writers to record their impressions in short narratives, which the Taos News called "funny, poignant, and revealing anecdotes."
Serenading the Light
Author: David Clemmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971915015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Serenading the Light celebrates a collection of works, by and large, of New Mexican artists of the early twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, this compilation includes most of the names always associated with this time and place such as Victor Higgins, Maynard Dixon, Oscar Berninghaus, Fremont Ellis and Frank Tenney Johnson. The book also goes beyond those names to include masterful works by others not so well known.Printed in full color and beautifully cloth-bound with a 4/c tipped on image and clear acetate jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971915015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Serenading the Light celebrates a collection of works, by and large, of New Mexican artists of the early twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, this compilation includes most of the names always associated with this time and place such as Victor Higgins, Maynard Dixon, Oscar Berninghaus, Fremont Ellis and Frank Tenney Johnson. The book also goes beyond those names to include masterful works by others not so well known.Printed in full color and beautifully cloth-bound with a 4/c tipped on image and clear acetate jacket.