Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots & Art - Hardcover

Traugott, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890135657 ISBN 13: 9780890135655

Verlag: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

This book takes a serious and ironic look at popular icons in western American culture -- cowboy boots and masterpieces in western art -- to explore American cultural values and pervasive themes in twentieth century art. Cowboy boots are examined as markers of western life, as works of art, and subjects of works of art. The author has selected stellar examples of boots made by skilled and famous boot makers, including Lucchese, Tony Lama, and C C McGuffin, to offer a counterpoint to the "fine art" more typically considered. He has also selected drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs that reflect the changing attitudes and perceptions of western culture over the past 50 years and raise conceptual issues about western mores and modern life. Featured are works by Barbara Van Cleve, Frederick Hammersley, Bruce Nauman, Hal West, Luis A Jimenez, Jr., and many others whose art define and redefine aspects of Western mythology and culture. The text examines the contemporary art forms that shape the current representation of the cow-boy and the West in modern life and explores the origins of cowboy imagery; the isolation of ranch life; the non-traditional roles of female cobblers; and the depictions of boot wearers (both male and female) as powerful, sexual, and independent.

Biografía del autor:

Joseph Traugott is curator of Twentieth Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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• Verlag: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0890135657
• ISBN 13: 9780890135655
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124