Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico
Mark Lavatelli, Gerald Nordland, Charles Strong
First comprehensive overview of internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn's New Mexico period (1950-1952), which greatly influenced his artistic maturation.
Clothbound. 164 pp., 10 x 12, 83 color plates and 21 illustrations; $50.00
ISBN: 978-089013-498-6
Filipino Cuisine
Gerry Gelle
Beautifully produced and highly reocmmended. - Library Journal
This is the most interesting of all books on this cuisine. - A World of Cookbooks
An interesting and informative book for cooks who want to expand their horizons and familiarize themselves with another aspect of Asian cooking. - Country Living
Paperbound; $29.95
978-0-89013-513-6
A Painter's Kitchen, New Edition
Margaret Wood with a foreword by Deborah Madison
Eclectic, personal and laced with revealing memories, this slender book humanizes the artist without diminishing her mystique.--Minneapolis Star Tribune
Paperbound; $16.95
978-0-89013-560-0
America's First Warriors
Photographs and Text by Steven Clevenger
A timely and moving book that beautifully documents the service of Native Americans in the armed forces. Interviews with Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Osage, and other Native American service men and women give insight into the warrior spirit. Striking images capture stirring moments of war, grief, community, family bonds, and homecoming.
Clothbound; 128 pages; 107 color photographs; 11 x 10; $39.95
978-089013-564-8
Down Country
Lucy R. Lippard, Photographs by Edward Ranney
Renowned writer and Galisteo resident Lucy R. Lippard synthesizes archeological and historical research to create this landmark study. Acclaimed photographer Edward Ranney contributes eighty documentary images.
Clothbound; 388 pages; 80 dutone plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations ; $50
978-0-89013-556-2
Converging Streams
Edited by William Wroth and Robin Farwell Gavin
This lushly illustrated book examines the cross-cultural influences and unique artistic dialogue between Hispano and Native American arts in the Southwest over the 400 years since Spanish colonization.
Clothbound;256 pages; 211 color and 23 black-and-white photographs; 9 x 11; $55
978-0-89013-568-6
New Mexico Treasures 2012
This gorgeous engagement calendar is packed full of practical information on cultural happenings in New Mexico's urban centers, small towns and Pueblos alike.
Wire; 120 pages; 57 color plates; 8 x 8; $13.95
978-0-89013-530-3
Black Rock
By Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs
Black Rock goes beyond the literate, learned, and playful flair of Paul Starrs’s language and the art, irony, and honesty of Peter Goin’s photographs. The ideas in both visions—the intellectual statements of what place means—distill the relationship between people and landscape to its physical essence.—Stephen Trimble
Peter Goin and Paul Starrs have produced an elegant piece of work that captures the essence of the Black Rock Playa and the mountains, meadows, and desert valleys that surround it.—The Geographical Review
Paperbound; $30.00
978-0-9841014-0-5
America's First Warriors
By Steven Clevenger
A timely and moving book that beautifully documents the service of Native Americans in the armed forces. Interviews with Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Osage, and other Native service men and women give insight into the warrior spirit. Striking images capture stirring moments of war, grief, community, strength, family bonds, and homecoming.
Clothbound; $39.95
978-0-89013-564-8
Down Country
By Lucy R. Lippard Photographs by Edward Ranney
Synthesizes archeaological and historical research to create a landmark study of the Southern Tewa Pueblo culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimately, perished in the Galisteo.
Clothbound; $50.00
978-0-89013-566-2
Converging Streams
William Wroth and Robin Farwell Gavin
This lushly illustrated book examines the cross-cultural influences and unique artistic dialogue between Hispano and Native American arts in the Southwest over the past 400 years since Spanish colonization.
Clothbound or Paperbound; $55.00 CB / $39.95 PB
978-089013-568-6 CB / 978-089013-570-9 PB
Bombast
Michon Mackedon Photographs by Peter Goin
Clothbound or Paperbound; $60.00 CB / $30.00 PB
978-0-9841014-2-9 CB / 978-0-9841014-3-6 PB
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment
Katherine Ware
Earth Now is the companion book to the New Mexico Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition of the same name. At 188 pages, it has 25 duotone and 66 color plates, with a two-part essay by museum curator Katherine Ware. The essay is the heart of the book, as it provides context for the exhibition and the included images. It's informative and easy to read, two qualities that don't always go together in museum publications....The book surveys the broad spectrum of landscape photography and what it tells us about our relationship with the natural world. Hope and pessimism are given nearly equal weight, and the photographers range from international icons to small-town New Mexico artists. There's an egalitarian approach to media as well; black and white, color, film, digital, view cameras, cell phones, f64 and image-constructions are all represented. The desire to represent our environment is what unites these disparate ways of making images, and I'm impressed with how tightly knit and well integrated the selection of images is.... I found the book very absorbing and I'm eager to see the exhibition when it opens on April 8th. —David Ondrik, Photo-Eye
Jacketed Hardcover; $39.95
978-089013-528-0
Folk Art of the Andes
Barbara Mauldin
The creative accomplishments of the Andean people of the highland region of South America are prominent among the folk art legacies of the world. This wide-ranging publication, examining over 850 works, is the first to present an overview of the religious, textile, costume, utilitarian, and festival folk arts made in the Andes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after the Andeans were free from Spanish colonial rule.
Clothbound; $50.00
978-089013-527-3
In Search of Dominguez & Escalante: Photographing the 1776 Spanish Expedition through the Southwest
Greg Mac Gregor and Siegfried Halus
On July 29, 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante embarked on an expedition to seek an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California. Although the Spaniards did not reach their final destination, the expedition is widely regarded as one of the great explorations in western U.S. history for its documentation of the land and Native peoples in the Four Corners. The group—including cartographer Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, Ute-speaking guides and the alcade (mayor) of Zuni— circumnavigated 1800 miles of unchartered territory never before seen by Europeans, an arduous five month trip documented in Escalante’s journal, a widely read historical account of the exploration.
Clothbound; $50.00
978-089013-529-7
Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Tony O'Brien
After being imprisoned in Afghanistan while on assignment for Life magazine in 1989, photojournalist Tony O’Brien sought solace and perspective at the Benedictine sanctuary, Christ in the Desert Monastery, near Abiquiu, New Mexico. During his year-long retreat, O’Brien was granted rare access to photograph the monastery and the daily activities and offices that have been kept in a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages.
Clothbound; 50.00
978-0-890013-533-4
Native American Bolo Ties: Vintage and Contemporary Artistry
Diana F. Pardue with Norman L. Sandfield
This book coincides with an exhibition at the Heard Museum in Phoenix featuring the finest collection of Native American crafted bolo ties produced in the Southwest from the past sixty years.
Jacketed Paperbound; 29.95
978-0-89013-534-1
Spider Woman's Gift: Nineteenth-Century Dine Textiles
Edited by Shelby J. Tisdale
Spider Woman is the mythological figure that taught the Navajo the art of weaving. This book features classic basket and textile examples made between 1840 to 1880s drawn from the collection at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture in Santa Fe, NM.
Jacketed Paperbound; 24.95
978-0-89013-531-0
285 Broken Dreams: Photographing Southeast New Mexico to Texas
Chris Enos; with an essay by Elvis E. Fleming
This beautifully crafted publication is a cultural survey of eastern New Mexico towards west Texas, a rural area joined by U.S. Route 285. These documentary photographs tell the story of the region’s economic downturns, evident in photographs of homes and businesses, including abandoned buildings. Accompanied by a thoughtful historical essay discussing the economic waves and population shifts along the route.
Clothbound; 34.95
978-0-89013-535-8
Bhutan: Between Heaven and Earth
Text and Photographs by Mary Peck
Mary Peck visited Bhutan between 1999 and 2005, having heard about this country that had been closed to visitors until the 1970s. “What drew me to Bhutan were stories about a country of more wilderness than cultivated or developed land, with a government that considers protection of those lands important, and a culture with reverence for the land and its resources,” says Peck. Bhutan: In Between Heaven & Earth features stunning duotone images of modern Bhutan that are a rare portrait of this society and landscape.
jacketed paperbound; $35.00
978-0-615-49933-8
Mexican Modern
Essays by Luis-Martin Lozano and David Craven
The first great social movement of the century erupted with the Mexican Revolution of 1910. 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 of Mexico.
Paperbound w/flaps. 104 pp. 9 1/2 x 12, 64 color plates; $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-490-0
Stone
Photographs by David Scheinbaum With an essay by Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Stone- iconic, mutable, durable, sensual- is the chosen medium for humankind's expression of eternal truths and a worthy subject of the photographer's art. The worked stone structures and natural formations presented here profoundly capture the unique ideas, shared social and aesthetic values, and religious beliefs of which they are a reflection.
Clothbound. 144 pp. 10 x 10, 114 duotones; $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-89013-494-8
Village of Painters
Frank J. Korom, Photographs by Paul Smutko
The Patuas of West Bengal are a traditional artisan caste specializing in the production of painted narrative scrolls and the performance of songs to accompany their unrolling. Traditionally, the scroll painters wander from village to village, seeking patronage by singing their own compositions while unraveling painted scrolls on sacred and secular themes.
Jacketed paperbound. 120 pp. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2, 118 color photographs, 1 map; $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-489-4
Secrets of Casas Grandes
Melissa S. Powell
Explores the ceramic traditions of the largest pre-Columbian civilizations in northern Mexico. Leading archaeologists discuss the culture that created this spectacular ceramic art, and give rare insight into an important site just beginning to receive its archaeological due.
Paperbound w/flaps. 136 pp. 9 x 11, 116 color and 3 b & w illustrations, maps; $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-495-5
The Art of New Mexico
Joseph Traugott
This lavishly illustrated book explores the aesthetic and cultural impact of New Mexico art from the 1880s to the present.
Clothbound. 288 pp.; $55.00
ISBN: 978-0-89013-497-9
Shared Images
Diana F. Pardue
Retrospective of the jewelry of Gail Bird (S. Domingo/Laguna) and Yazzie Johnson (Navajo), among the first rank of Native American artists.
Clothbound. 184 pp. 9 x 11, 203 color and 41 b & w illustrations; $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-89013-496-2
A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish
Ruben Cobos
This new edition should go far in establishing the legitimacy of this dialect of Spanish and in calling attention to its richness, variety, and historical significance.' --Marc Simmons
Paperbound. 278 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-89013-453-5
Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
Michael Moore
Drawing on research over his thirty-five-year career as a teacher, merchant, and alternative-medicine practitioner, Moore updates and revises his guide to further expose the botanical wealth of the mountain west.
Paperbound. 368 pp. 52 color photographs, 148 drawings, 134 maps; $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-454-2
Chistes
Nasario Garcia
Bilingual collection of orally gathered anecdotes, practical jokes, pranks, slips-of-the-tongue, hyperbole, solecisms, slapstick, and double entendres from the region. Foreword by John Nichols.
Paperbound. 192 pp.; $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-431-3
Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth
Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum
FIRST PRIZE WINNER - 2005 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS PUBLICATION AWARD Russek and Scheinbaum's photographic interpretations of the Chinese Oracle features sixty-four duotone landscape portraits paired with text from the I Ching
Clothbound. 160 pp. 64 duotone photographs; $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-427-6
Third Views, Second Sights
Mark Klett
Third Views, Second Sights presents forty-three photographs taken from a third survey, pairing them with both the original 19th century landscape survey images of the west, and rephotographs taken in the 1970's.
Clothbound. 256 pp. 138 duotones, 14 color, interactive cd; $60.00
ISBN: 978-0-89013-432-0
William Henry Jackson's 'The Pioneer Photographer'
Compiled, edited and annotated by Bob Blair
This reconstruction of Jackson's classic work, long out of print, presents one hundred sixty photographs and early drawings, paintings and lithographs by America's best-known landscape photographer.
Clothbound; $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-435-1
New Mexico Artists at Work
Photographs by Jack Parsons, Text by Dana Newman
Through photographs 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 work produced in them.
Clothbound. 176 pp. 71 color photographs, 31 duotones; $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-439-9
Oaxaca Celebration
Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza
Mary Jane Gagnier, a native Canadian, traveled through Mexico on a journey of self-exploration. Shortly thereafter, the the Ontario native with wanderlust found herself intimately immersed in the culture and traditions of her new home.
Paperbound w/Flaps. 160 pp. 100 color photographs, one map; $24.95
ISBN: 978-089013-445-0
Making a Hand
Photographs by Gene Peach, Text by Max Evans
Ranching families reflect a deeply rooted agricultural tradition the day-to-day workings of which have changed little over generations. This book is a tribute to the newest generation of ranchers growing up in New Mexico.
Clothbound. 160 pp. 140 Color Photographs; $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-476-4
Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys
Edited and Introduced by Mark L. Gardner, Musical Performances by Mark L. Gardner and Rex Rideout
For the last nineteen years, Thorp has sought out cowboy ballads and poems from across the west- from New Mexico and Texas to Wyoming and Utah, and has written a few ditties himself.
Paperbound. 88 pp. 8 line art illustrations, featuring bonus CD of 17 Songs; $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-478-8
Passions in Print
Pamela S. Smith with Richard Polese
Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colorful 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).
Clothbound. 224 pp. 8 x 10 1/2, 92 color and 40 b & w illustrations; $45.00
ISBN: 978-89013-479-5
Classic Hopi and Zuni Kachina Figures
Photographs by Andrea Portago Text by Barton Wright
Presented here are one hundred classic-era (1880s-1940s) Hopi and Zuni carved dolls from provate 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 colors and to reveal their moevement and drama, passion and personality.
Clothbound. 186 pp. 10x12, 84 color, 31 duotones; $55.00
ISBN: 978-0-89013-483-2
Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest
Shelby Tisdale Foreword by Arturo Peralta-Ramos
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 jewelry 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 acievements of Native American artists oft he Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum.
Paperbound. 216 pp. 9 and 5/8 x10, 90 color and 8 black and white illustrations; $34.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-506-8
Albuquerque in Our Time
Debra Hughes, Afterword by Owen Lopez
Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city astride a great river, celebrates its tricentennial in 2006. This book pays homage to the city with a rich medley of narratives by its most colorful residents: well0-loved town characters, writers, journalists, politicians, civic and business leaders who have both shaped Albuquerque's character and guided its growth. Contributers include museician Al Hurricane, Se. Pete Domenici, folklorist Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, and Bueno CEO Jacqueline Baca. Their personal and reflective narratives-dotted with references to Albuquerque' landmakrks, people, and events-will make you nod, smile, and remember Albuquerque's past while considering its bright future.
Paperbound w/flaps. 144 pp. 6x9 inches, 60 halftones; $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-481-8
Valles Caldera
William deBuys and Don J. Usner
This book tells the natural and human history of the preserve and presents photographs of the awesome splendor of its valleys and mountains. Significant to all who recognized the precious nature of the preserve, it tells the story of the unique administrative experiement now underway to manage its public lands.
Clothbound. 128 pp. 10 and 1/2 x9, 59 color photographs, 8 black-and-white photographs, 1 map; $34.95
ISBN: 978-0-89013-493-6
Latin American Posters
Edited by Russ Davidson, Foreword by Helen R. Jucero, Essays by David Craven, Russ Davidson, et al.
The political and cultural posters presented here document four decades of Latin American social and political history during a time of widespread crisis and unrest. The simplicity and directness of the political poster made it a powerful instrument for announcing the mood of the moment, transmitting messages, and mobilizing mass action.
Clothbound & Paperbound w/Flaps 188 pp. 9x12, 142 color plates; $50.00 (cl); $34.95 (pb)
ISBN: 978-0-89013-487-0; 978-0-89013-492-4
Changing Dreams:
Photographs by Vicki Ragan Text by Shepard Barbash
A moving and fascinating documentary look at the Oaxacan woodcarvers that create the extremely popular novelty figures. Complete with 95 duotones, this insightful book gives a human face to immigration and the plight of these artisans.
Clothbound; $39.95
978-0-89013-505-1
In New Mexico Light
Photographs and Text by Douglas Kent Hall / Foreword by Sam Shepard
“…nicely conveys the feeling of life in New Mexico, capturing people, places, politics, and art with each print.”--PASATIEMPO
Clothbound; $55.00
978-0-89013-501-3
New Mexico's Palace of the Govenors
Emily Abbink
“…until Emily Abbink came along, no one had written a book for the general public devoted to the Palace, which has been a longtime seat of government that is now part of the of New Mexico....The elegantly presented book is complemented by vintage photographs, illustrations and maps as well as occasional comparative timelines to show landmark events in other parts of North America.”--ABQ JOURNAL
Paperbound with Flaps; $29.95
978-089013-500-6
Faith and Transformation
Edited by Doris Francis
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.
Paper with Flaps; $29.95
978-089013-504-4
Old Traditions in New Pots
Tricia Loscher, Foreword by Martha Streuver
The work of more thank seventy Native arists 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.
Paper with Flaps; $25.00
978-0-934351
The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo
Dwight P Lanmon and Fracis H Harlow
Offers a history of the Zuni Pueblos, an introduction to Ashiwi (Zuni) pottery, as well as a chronological history of the craft.
Cloth; $150.00
978-0-89013-508-2
Born of Fire
Charles S. King
Seventy-five exemplary examples of Tafoya's work are presented in full color- many of the pots documented for the first time. King as dated the pieces, demonstrating the progression of Tafoya's artistry.
Clothbound; $45.00
978-0-89013-509-9
RED CRANE TITLE * A Land So Remote
Larry Frank
The refined writing style is clean and direct witha scalpel-sharp attention to the most delicate details. A Land So Remote will undoubtedly become a masterpiece of art history that will have a tremendous impact on readers and scholars.--ABQ Arts
Clothbound; Three-Volume Boxed Set $150.00
978-1-878610-77-5
RED CRANE TITLE * New Kingdom of the Saints
Larry Frank
Collector, curator, and writer Frank shares over 35 years of fascination with New Mexican santos "saints", and their makers, the Santeros. Whether as retablos, which are paintings on wood, or bultos, their sculptural counterparts, santos act as direct intermediaries with divine personalities and are even rewarded or punished according to their level of assistance. These unique Hispanic American icons are rooted in Catholic baroque style, but harsh living conditions, relative isolation, and limited imported materials fostered a simpler linear style suggestive of medieval art. With the years 1780-1907 marking the peak of their production, this true folk tradition of the Americas has been neglected until recently. The many excellent color reproductions, study aids, and an annotated glossary of saints make this book an accessible reference choice.
Clothbound; $75.00
978-1-878610-18-8
RED CRANE TITLE * Modernists in Taos
By David L. Witt, Edited by Elizabeth J. Cunningham, Photography of Michael O' Shaughnessy
Modernists in Taos looks 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. These artists, trained in various institutions such as the Black Mountain School and the California School of Fine Arts, fell under the spell of Taos and created a significant body of work in the beautiful city. 150 full color plates are included in this seminal book to further show the importance of the artwork developed in New Mexico.
Clothbound; $50
978-1-878610-78-2
RED CRANE TITLE * Taos Moderns
David L. Witt, Photography by Michael O'Shaughnessy
The book's many photographs, which place the Taos Moderns in the social and geographical context of northern New Mexico, include 40 color plates that prove the variety of work produced there. A valuable contribution to the merger of artists, place, and time that made the Taos Moderns.
Clothbound; Paperbound; $37.50; $25.00
978-1-878610-16-4; 978-1-878610-17-1
RED CRANE TITLE * The World of Flower Blue
Margaret Cesa
The World of Flower Blue is a meticulously documented and fully rendered portrait of a unique artist.
-AB Bookman's Weekly
Clothbound; $49.95
978-1-878610-65-2
RED CRANE TITLE * Spirit Ascendant
Edward Gonzales and David L. Witt, Photography by Michael O´Shaughnessy & Murrae Haynes
"It is not very often that a new book comes on the market and blazes a trail in its presentation as well as its content. Precious little has ever been written about Patriociño Barela, but this in-depth study of the man and his art begins to fill that need admirably."
-Tradicion Revista
Clothbound; $49.95
978-1-878610-46-1
RED CRANE TITLE * New Cooking From Old Mexico
Jim Peyton
Jim Peyton's book is well-researched and thoroughly delicious. It places the glorious and varied cuisines of Mexico in a context that should appeal to both the food historian and the home cook.
Clothbound; $29.95
978-1-878610-70-6
RED CRANE TITLE * Medicinal Plants of The Pacific West
Michael Moore
Accompanied by illustrations and photographs of over 300 species of plants, this informative and interesting guide is user-friendly and a must for anyone interested in herbal remedies and plant wildlife.
Paperbound; $22.50
978-1-878610-31-7
Los Remedios
Michael Moore
[Moore]accompanies a rare feat: he presents a tremendous amount of information concisely while infusing it with wisdom, wit, and personal reminiscences sure to delight novice herbalists and veterans alike.
Paperbound; $14.95
978-089013-514-3
RED CRANE TITLE * Working in the Dark
Jimmy Santiago Baca
The essays are permeated with Beca's intensely lyrical sense of the empowerment of literacy and langauge. - Library Journal
This is a book about connection, forged by a poetic imagination in a language that sometimes soars. Highly recommended. - Multicultural Review
Clothbound; Paperbound; $19.95; $14.95
978-1-878610-08-9; 978-089013-515-0
RED CRANE TITLE * The Dance House
Joseph Marshall III
Powerful essays and short stories...Readers will be grateful to Marshall for building a dance house of the mind. - Publishers Weekly
Paperbound; $13.95
978-1-878610-66-9
RED CRANE TITLE * On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples
Joseph Marshall III
History and poetry blend together in these pages. I can think of no collection of essays that I've enjoyed more in recent years. This is a book that all who love the West, who are concerned about the natural world, who believe in truth and the sacredness of all life need to read. It will move them and it will give them courage. - Joseph Bruchac, Editor, Greenfield Review
Paperbound; $13.95
978-089013-516-7
RED CRANE TITLE * Winter of the Holy Iron
Joseph Marshall III
This is a powerful story about a people that must change to accommodate not only the white man but one of their tools - the gun. The questions raised in the story are ones that we are still struggling with today. Does owning a gun give the right to kill? - Jim Northrup
Paperbound; $16.95
978-089013-517-4
A River Apart
Edited by Valerie K. Verzuh / Foreword by Shelby Tisdale
"A River Apart brings together anthropologists, artists and art historians to examine the pottery tradition of the two pueblos. The book would be a good addition to the libraries of those interested in Pueblo Indian pottery, Native American arts and culture and southwestern history and anthropology." --Pasatiempo
Clothbound; $45.00
978-0-89013-522-8
Healing the West
Jack Loeffler
"Anyone living in the West needs to read this book. It's not an easy read, but necessary. In an age when land exploitation and profit prevail, this book is a reminder that geography holds many resources besides minerals and oil… Throughout the book, all voices promt us to remember to look at the patterns in nature to find a quality of life... the message comes through with unflinching power."--Enchantment Coop
Clothbound; $34.95
978-0-89013-520-4
New Mexico Colcha Club
Nancy C. Benson
"Benson’s chronicle is a vibrant history of a particular art form, and through it, an entire culture. She begins where many accounts do, with Oñate and conquered peoples, but Benson gives life to the litany of ancestors and events in New Mexico history. The narrative she crafts is loving and detailed, portraying the women who settled and built families here as brave, resourceful and self-sufficient. The book, published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, is gorgeous, and the research that went into it meticulous. This is a serious book, presented as art, and is possibly one of the best books published about New Mexico in years. It treats its subject with dignity and reverence, rendering the history of Hispanic women in New Mexico as essential, their work and artistry ignored at our own peril." --Weekly Alibi
Jacketed Paperbound; $34.95
978-0-89013-519-8
El Rancho de las Golondrinas
Carmella Padilla / Photography by Jack Parsons / Foreward by Marc Simmons
El Rancho de las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows), a Spanish Colonial living history museum located in La Ciénega, just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has enchanted and educated visitors with its natural beauty, annual festivals, and special events since its establishment as a museum in 1972. This book takes the reader on a journey through time, place, culture, and tradition.
Clothbound; $39.95
978-0-89013-553-2
To Walk in Beauty
Photographs and Text by Stacia Spragg-Braude / Afterword by N. Scott Momaday
To Walk in Beauty takes readers on the journey of the Begay family of Jeddito Wash, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. This is an intimate portrait of a family’s decision to return to the reservation and to reclaim its cultural identity.
Clothbound; $45.00
978-0-89013-554-9
Frederick Hammersley
Essays by Dave Hickey, David Pagel, Arden Reed, and Joseph Traugott, with an interview of Frederick Hammersley by Sarah S. King
Clothbound; 192 pages; 194 color and 1 black-and-white images; 9.5 x 12; $65.00
978-0-9823736-0-6
Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism
Edited by Lois P. Rudnick
For too long Cady Wells has been but a footnote in the history of modern American art. This interdisciplinary team of experienced scholars recovers his rightful place as an artist, a collector, and a tastemaker.
--Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in the History of Art, Stanford University, Author, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity 1915-1935.
Clothbound; 160 pages; 74 color and 15 black-and-white images; 9.5 x 11; $39.95
978-0-89013-558-7
Through the Lens
Edited by Mary Anne Redding / Photographs edited by Krista Elrick and Mary Anne Redding
From the 1850s to the present, photography has been an effective medium for exploring, documenting, and promoting the great frontiers of civilization. Through the Lens provides a historical and contextual perspective on how photography has played an important role in documenting and shaping Santa Fe’s image.
Selected images from more than one hundred noted photographers are featured alongside insightful essays from noted writers to provide stimulating perspectives on this visual record of transformation in Santa Fe over the last 160 years.
Clothbound; $50.00
978-0-89013-550-1
Telling New Mexico
Edited by Marta Weigle, with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver
This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native American and Chicano studies. Contributors include Rick Hendricks, John L. Kessell, Peter Iverson, Rina Swentzell, Sylvia Rodriguez, William deBuys, Robert J. Torrez, Malcolm Ebright, Herman Agoyo, and Paula Gunn Allen, among many others.
Paperbound; $29.95
978-0-89013-556-3
Guitars and Adobes and the Uncollected Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez
Edited and Introduced by Ellen McCracken
Fray Angélico Chávez [born Manuel Ezequiel Chávez] (1910-1996) was one of New Mexico’s foremost writers and intellectuals, with hundreds of poems, articles, plays, stories, and twenty-four books to his credit. In 1924, at the age of fourteen, he traveled from northern New Mexico to Ohio to study and train in the Franciscan Order, becoming the first native New Mexican to be ordained a Franciscan priest.
This rare collection of writings combines Chávez’s early fiction with his little-known novel Guitars and Adobes, originally published in 1931-32 in serialized form. The novel presents an alternative Hispano vision to Willa Cather’s famed Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Clothbound; 292 pages; 30 black-and-white lithographs and illustrations; 6 x 9; $24.95
978-0-89013-559-4
Grave Images
Photographs and Text by Kathy T. Hettinga
“A poignant, elegiac meditation on the material culture of death and remembrance.”
—David Morgan, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Duke University
Clothbound; 180 pages; 220 color images; 9.5 x 11; $45.00
978-0-89013-561-7
Before Santa Fe
Jason S. Shapiro / Foreword by Frances Levine
"Before Santa Fe: Archeology of the City Different distill[s] the sum of gathered knowledge in a scholarly presentation ideal for reference shelves yet accessible to lay readers as well…Exhaustive notes and a list of references round out this top-notch analysis, enhanced with a handful of charts and black-and-white photographs." --The Midwest Book Review
Clothbound; $39.95
978-0-89013-521-1
Huichol Art and Culture
Edited b Melissa S. Powell and C. Jill Grady
This extensive volume features a vast array of Huichol art, including yarn paintings, textiles, prayer arrows, beaded jewelry, and featherwork, along with rare field photographs documenting the annual ceremonial and agricultural cycles.
Jacketed Paperbound; 176 pages; 134 color and 70 black-and-white photographs; 9 x 11; $39.95
978-0-89013-563-1
Sole Mates
Joseph Traugott
A lively examination of cowboy boots as popular icons of western American culture, along with masterpieces in twentieth century art that depict Western Americana. Included is artwork by Barbara Van Cleve, Frederick Hammersley, Luis A. Jimenez, Jr, Bruce Nauman, and others.
Faux Leather Clothbound; 124 pages; 96 color and 70 black-and-white photographs; 10 x 9; $34.95
978-0-89013-565-5
To Form from Air
By Robert Ware with an essay by Malin Wilson-Powell
Artist Raymond Jonson (1891–1982) was a maverick who made his reputation in New Mexico by creating abstract Southwest works that advanced the development of modernism. To Form from Air presents Jonson’s masterpieces of the 1920s–’40s that explore the intimate confluence of art and music that defined 20th-century modernism.
Clothbound; $29.95
978-089013-571-6
