Main entry:

Adams, Robert, 1937-

Title & Author:

The architecture and art of early Hispanic Colorado / written and photographed by Robert Adams.

Publication:

Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [1998]

Description:

vi, 234 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 x 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Boulder : Colorado Associated University Press, 1974.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232).
Exploration and settlement. The early background -- The reconnoitering and defense of Southern Colorado -- The first villages -- The life of the pioneers -- The deteriorating balance -- Architecture and art. Adobe building -- Santos and memorials -- Illustrations. Along the Cucharas and Apishapa rivers -- Along the Purgatory River -- San Luis and vicinity -- Conejos and vicinity -- Along the Upper Rio Grande -- Along the San Juan River -- The future. Appendix -- Suggested reading -- Acknowledgments -- Map.

Summary:

This is the first extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or being transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the southern border of the state once produced. Accompanying the eighty-five full page photographs is a text that briefly outlines the history of pioneer immigration from New Mexico, and describes the way adobe buildings were constructed and other artifacts made. Jacket

ISBN:

0870814648 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780870814648 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Spanish colonial Colorado.
Architecture, Spanish colonial Colorado.
Art colonial espagnol Colorado.
Architecture coloniale espagnole Colorado.
Architecture, Spanish colonial.
Art, Spanish colonial.
Colorado.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205807
Call No.: TR140.A216 A3 1998
Status: Available