Santa Fe Fantasy: Quest for the Golden City - Hardcover

Baca, Elmo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940666146 ISBN 13: 9780940666146

Publisher: Clear Light Pub, 1994

Synopsis

Explores the mystique of the city of Santa Fe in New Mexico, examining the lore of early Pueblo culture, and presenting contemporary painting, architecture, and furniture

About this title

About the Author:

Elmo Baca is a former New Mexico state historic preservation officer.

From Publishers Weekly:

This beautiful album deciphers the mystique of Santa Fe, a city where the heritage of Spain and Old Mexico mingled with the powerful cultures of Native American peoples and the frontier ways of settlers pushing westward. Lured by the Spanish fantasy of Seven Cities of Gold, colonizers and adventurers instead found an elusive, magical quality in the air and light, a latent power and spirituality in New Mexico's landscape. In an informal, profusely illustrated text, full of lore on early Pueblo culture and Spanish colonial trading, Baca, director of the New Mexico Main Street Program, which carries out downtown revitalization projects, charts a visionary tradition extending from the Mimbres people's pottery (1000-1400) to the paintings of R.C. Gorman and Georgia O'Keeffe, Navajo artist Emmi Whitehorse and contemporary painters such as Douglas Johnson and Alyce Frank. He also surveys Sante Fe's bold postmodern architecture and furniture.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Clear Light Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0940666146
• ISBN 13: 9780940666146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 109