Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era - Hardcover

Nunn, Tey Marianna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826323995 ISBN 13: 9780826323996

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2001

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Book by Nunn Tey Marianna

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""Sin Nombre allows us to share in the excitement of tracking down elusive works. . . . It's always fun to discover treasure, especially when it is a legacy arising in your own back yard." ." . . stunning book. . This work will undoubtedly contribute to a broad-based scholarship." ." . . this is an interesting and attractive book that plays the important role of broadening our knowledge of art production in the US in the first half of the twentieth century." ""Sin Nombre" allows us to share in the excitement of tracking down elusive works. . . . It's always fun to discover treasure, especially when it is a legacy arising in your own back yard."

Reseña del editor:

Hundreds of Hispana and Hispano artists in New Mexico created works of art for the various New Deal programs, but until now they have been mostly nameless, 'sin nombre'. Though many people told her she wouldn't find any artists, the author dug deep into archives and uncovered a wealth of material: artists who made paintings, murals, sculpture, furniture, or who worked in metal, weaving and fibre arts. This book shows that as a result of Eurocentric aesthetic values, rigid art historical categories, and racial prejudice, New Mexico artists were stereotyped and labelled craftsmen. Their work was classified not as art but as handicraft or labour. An exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, which opened in June 1999, brought to the public a major selection of artists working in New Mexico under New Deal programs and inspired other artists and family members to come forward to identify themselves and their artwork. The artists who are still alive are now mostly in their eighties or older. This beautiful book restores an important chapter in American art of the 1930s and 1940s to the public record and brings long overdue recognition to a generation of New Mexico artists.

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• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0826323995
• ISBN 13: 9780826323996
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192