New Mexico Art Through Time—Prehistory to the Present [SOLD]

New Mexico Art Through Time—Prehistory to the Present

Museum of New Mexico

By Joseph Traugott

Hardcover with slip cover, first edition 2012

250 works of art in 244 pages, illustrated.  Excellent condition.

Works include pre-European Native American pottery, baskets, and weavings; Hispanic santero art highlighting religious bultos and retablos; Taos and Santa Fe art colony masterworks; and twentieth-century artists, many of whom helped to shape the canon.  

Examples are drawn from both fine art and anthropology collections and include works by Marsden Hartley and Gustave  Baumann, Raymond Jonson and Andrew Dasburg, Georgia O’Keeffe and Paul Strand, Luis Tapia and Fritz Scholder, Peter Hurd and Jerry West, Frederick Hammersley and Agnes Martin, Judy Chicago and Luis A. Jimenez, Jr., Miguel Gandert, Richard Diebenkorn, Bruce Nauman, and many more.

Contents

It’s About Art and Time

It’s About Art and Culture

The Art of Hunters, Gatherers, and Early Agriculturalists

The Art of Ancestral Pueblo Villages

From the Spanish Entrada to the Mexican Republic

American Colonialism in New Mexico

Artist Fraternities after New Mexico Statehood

Roaring Twenties to World War II

Mainstreaming New Mexico Art

The Changing Artistic Landscape

Rethinking the Past—Envisioning the Future