New Mexico Village Arts

Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerqe, New Mexico, 1949

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266 Pages Indexed. The dust jacket although it is a bit tattered is protected by a vinyl covering. There is a chunk missing from the top front right corner. Calligraphy by Robert Stanford Wallace. Four inked lines of gift inscription dated October 12, 1952. Page xi is tape repaired. No other repairs to the text pages that are bright, tight, and white. Tan boards decorated with red drawings. Settling in New Mexico some years before the founding of Jamestown, Spain's colonists faced a "dry, thirsty land." Finding good timber difficult to get, the New Mexican built in adobe mud "some of the most original and effective architecture" in America. He lacked hardwood, found nails too costly, yet without these made handsome furniture, and even complex looms. His wife plastered the house, baked in an adobe oven, and embroidered coverlets of most extraordinary beauty with her vegetable-dyed yarns. The village artist, making all his own materials, produced the "stark, powerful, histrionic" statues and paintings much sought today by museums. In New Mexico, "a Medieval world until 1846," miracle plays are still performed. But the little Spanish villages are changing under the impact of machine civilization. The fruits of four hundred years' experience are preserved in the architecture and decoration of Southwestern homes-and in this stimulating and intimate introduction to the arts and crafts most characteristic of the land.

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Title
New Mexico Village Arts
Author
Dickey, Roland F.
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerqe, New Mexico
Publication year
1949
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hard Back
Illustrator
Goff, Lloyd Lozes - Drawings
Edition
Presumed First Edition
Dimensions
7 1/2" X 10 1/2"

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