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Crafting devotions : tradition in contemporary New Mexico Santos

Title
Crafting devotions : tradition in contemporary New Mexico Santos / Laurie Beth Kalb ; photographs by Mary Peck, Miguel A. Gandert, and Susan Einstein.
Author
Kalb, Laurie Beth.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1994], ©1994.

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237 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
  • This first serious study of contemporary santeros working in northern New Mexico is amply illustrated throughout with beautiful color photographs. Laurie Beth Kalb examines the role and meaning of tradition in the work of a number of artists, both living and deceased, including Luis Tapia, Patrocinio Barela, Marco and Patricia Oviedo, Enrique Rendon, and many others.
  • For each of these artists, the meaning of tradition varies, and the issues of self-representation, cultural expression, preservation, innovation, and market demands are all complex, powerful, and delicate. It is both troublesome and rewarding to be able to support a family on the sales of religious images to Anglo buyers. The mainstream fine art world, tourism, religion, and ethnic politics all play roles in the creation of traditional works in a contemporary world.
  • . For all the santeros, the tangle of religious, commercial, political, and aesthetic forces requires complicated choices far beyond the basic relationships between themselves and their saints. Laurie Beth Kalb tells a fascinating and revealing story about a unique art form and its significance.
Subject
  • Santos (Art) > New Mexico
  • Hispanic American art > New Mexico
  • Folk art > New Mexico > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Crafting Devotions -- Ch. 1. Chicano Art and Santos by Luis Tapia -- Ch. 2. Primitivism, Modernism, and Patrocinio Barela -- Ch. 3. Spanish Colonial Replicas by Oviedo Carvings and Bronze -- Ch. 4. Enrique Rendon: A Folk Artist's Folk Artist -- Ch. 5. Crafting Devotions, Crafting Tradition.
ISBN
  • 0826315496 (cl)
  • 082631550X (pa)
LCCN
94028253
OCLC
  • 30779746
  • ocm30779746
  • SCSB-14425604
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries