Main entry:

Gibson, Arrell Morgan.

Title & Author:

The Santa Fe and Taos colonies : age of the muses, 1900-1942 / by Arrell Morgan Gibson.

Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1983.

Description:

xiii, 305 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
THE ART SPIRIT. Rocky Mountain Muses ; The Santa Fe-Taos Ambience ; The Pioneer Aesthetes ; The Northern New Mexican Social Environment: Discovery, Restoration, Interpretation ; The Golden Years at Taos Colony (1920-1942) ; The Golden Years at Santa Fe Colony (1920-1942) -- AESTHETIC OUTREACH. Creative Flair in the Taos and Santa Fe Colonies ; Native American Muses ; Hispanic Muses -- EUTERPE{u2019}S ISSUE. The Literati ; Mary Austin: Santa Fe{u2019}s Literary Dowager ; Mabel Dodge Luhan: Taos Salon-Keeper ; D.H. Lawrence and Rananim -- THE MUSE HERITAGE. The Colonies and Community ; Demise and Legacy.

Summary:

During the first half of the 1900's Santa Fe and Taos became havens for artists fleeing urban industrial setting. The elements of the Southwest with its awesome vistas, intense light, and isolation drew such notables as D.H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keeffe. These artists made the Southwest attractive to the world. Their lives and works contradicted the conventional image of the Southwest as a cultural desert. These artists and writers became active in town life running for office, decorating public buildings, restaurants, and bars ; they clamp down on builders who want to erect buildings out of keeping with the prevailing style of architecture; and start most of the local movements to improve the town. These aesthetes also precipitated a renaissance in Indian and Hispanic art. When federal policy forbade aboriginal life-styles, religion, and art in an attempt to Anglicize the Indians, the artists and writers of Northern New Mexico not only challenged these policies but began to incorporate primitive elements into their own works and to encourage the Indian artists themselves, This is the story of Santa Fe and Taos in their golden age, from 1900 to 1942, the age of the muses.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0806118350
9780806118352
0806121165
9780806121161

Subject:

Arts New Mexico Santa Fe History 20th century.
Arts New Mexico Taos History 20th century.
Arts Santa Fe (N.-M.) 20e siècle.
Arts Taos (N.-M.) 20e siècle.
Arts Nouveau-Mexique Santa Fe 20e siècle Histoire.
Arts Nouveau-Mexique Taos 20e siècle Histoire.
Arts
Intellectual life
Kultur
Geschichte (1900-1942)
Santa Fe (N.M.) Intellectual life.
Taos (N.M.) Intellectual life.
Santa Fe Vie intellectuelle.
Taos Vie intellectuelle.
New Mexico Santa Fe
New Mexico Taos
Santa Fe (N.M.)
Taos (N.M.)

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89916
Call No.: PO1816; ID:86-B17714
Status: Available