PUEBLO POTTERY FIGURINES The expression of Cultural Perceptions in Clay [SOLD]

PUEBLO POTTERY FIGURINES: The expression of Cultural Perceptions in Clay 

by Patricia Fogelman Lange

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

Hardback with slipcover, first edition, 2002, 162 pages, new copy.  Illustrated with photos of figurines

As the first ever sustained inquiry into a Pueblo sense of brevity, this path breaking contribution offers a new view of Pueblo artistic endeavors.  Lange skillfully delineates how their creativity serves religion and traditional life but also describes the dissonance between those values and the process of making objects for the commercial market. 

In unraveling a cultural aesthetic from a study of pottery figurines, Lange interprets how these objects arise from specific historical or cultural events.  But also discussed is how figurines contain clues about Pueblo artists who straddle two distinct worlds—their traditional and the modern.