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Founded in 1951, the Museum of New Mexico Press is an award-winning publisher of finely designed and crafted books that reflect the collections of the Museum of New Mexico and explore the culture of the Southwest. Specializations include fine art and folk art, photography, Native Americana, the Hispanic Southwest, nature and gardening, and architecture and style. For a complete listing of books in print, call 800 249-7737. |
285 Broken Dreams: Photographing Southeast New Mexico to Texas
This beautifully crafted publication is a cultural survey of eastern New Mexico towards west Texas, a rural area joined by U.S. Route 285. These documentary photographs tell the story of the region’s economic downturns, evident in photographs of homes and businesses, including abandoned buildings. Accompanied by a thoughtful historical essay discussing the economic waves and population shifts along the route.
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Valles Caldera
This book tells the natural and human history of the preserve and presents photographs of the awesome splendor of its valleys and mountains. Significant to all who recognized the precious nature of th . . .
Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys
For the last nineteen years, Thorp has sought out cowboy ballads and poems from across the west- from New Mexico and Texas to Wyoming and Utah, and has written a few ditties himself. . . .
Mexican Modern
The first great social movement of the century erupted with the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Presented in this catalogue are works by Los Tres Grandes: Diego Rivera, Jose` Clemente Orozco, and David Al . . .
Stone
Stone- iconic, mutable, durable, sensual- is the chosen medium for humankind's expression of eternal truths and a worthy subject of the photographer's art. The worked stone structures and natural form . . .
Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest
New Mexico art patron Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell je . . .
