PART OF NEW MEXICO'S LITERARY HERITAGE FOR SEVENTY YEARS
Addresses issues common to contemporary Native Americans, such as the definition of 'Indian art' and the stereotypical Indian portrayed in film.
Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi
Trim: 10" x 8"
Pages: 112
Illustrations: 100 color plates
© 2003
Yoshitoshi is considered to be Japan's last great woodblock artist. This, his final work, is regarded as his greatest achievement.
Custom Made in New Mexico
Trim: 10.5" x 13"
Pages: 180
Illustrations: 120 color and black-and-white photographs
© 2016
This beautiful art book is a reflection and retrospective of the past forty years of lowrider culture in the heart of northern New Mexico. Photographs by New Mexico’s most renowned documentarians such as Alex Harris, Jack Parsons, Miguel Gandert, Annie Sahlin, Meridel Rubenstein, Don J. Usner, and Siegfried Halus are included alongside photographers newer on the scene, creating a fascinating compilation of lowriders over time. In his essay, Don J. Usner provides an insightful overview of lowriding in New Mexico, how it evolved, the culture, and the car makers themselves who are also known as lowriders.
A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period
Trim: 8.5" x 11"
Pages: 442
© 1992
“The full stories behind each name and note, too lengthy to include here, have furnished me with a knowledge of Spanish [colonial] times that I could not have been acquired in any other way…. [The] compilation will also prove useful to others…working in any field of research having to do with the first two centuries of New Mexico’s existence as a Spanish colony…New Mexicans interested in their remote forebears will find it intriguing as well as revealing— Fray Angélico Chávez, from the Introduction
El Tecolote del sombrero de paja
Trim: 11" x 8.5"
Pages: 40
Illustrations: 13 color illustrations
© 2017
This masterfully written children’s book by New Mexico’s favorite storyteller is a delightful tale about a young owl named Ollie who lives in an orchard with his parents in northern New Mexico. Ollie is supposed to attend school but prefers to hang out with his friends Raven and Crow instead. Ollie’s parents discover he cannot read and they send Ollie off to see his grandmother, Nana, a teacher and farmer in Chimayó. Along the way, Ollie’s illiteracy causes mischief as he meets up with some shady characters on the path including Gloria La Zorra (a fox), Trickster Coyote, and a hungry wolf named Luis Lobo who has sold some bad house plans to the Three Little Pigs.
The Pottery of Dextra Quotskuyva
Pages: 124
Illustrations: 154 color, 3 black-and-white illustrations
© 2001
Native American pottery scholar, collector, and dealerrnMartha H. Struever worked closely with Dextra Quotskuyva for a quarter century. This book, a companion to a retrospective exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum in 2001, explores Quotskuyva’s craft, artistry, traditions and innovations that set her apart from other Pueblo potters of her generation.
ISOMERIC DESIGN IN PUEBLO POTTERY
Trim: 10.5" x 9.5"
Pages: 136
Illustrations: 50 color plates, 60 figures
© 2018
This book examines design in Ancestral Pueblo pottery from various museum collections in the Southwest. The concept of isomeric design is based on an analogy with isomers in chemistry, which refers to compounds that are chemically identical but have mirror-image structures. The authors, an archaeologist and and art historian, use isomeric design to describe the use of paired forms that can be perceived as reversible on painted pottery. This book provides a new and fascinating perspective on Pueblo art and culture.
Private Press Artistry in New Mexico
Trim: 8" x 10.5"
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 92 color and 40 black-and-white illustrations
© 2006
From nineteenth-century printers, to Santa Fe and Taos art colonists, to highly creative contemporary book artists.
Sierra San Luis forms the nexus of the Sierra Madres and the Rocky Mountains. Michael Berman intends for PERDIDO to bring attention to this remarkable mountain range at a seminal point in time. The ecological systems on the planet are failing, yet in the Sierra San Luis the collapse has reversed itself. Things are shifting, but they are not falling apart-water, soil, and ecological diversity are all increasing in quantity and improving in quality. The question to explore is, why here and nowhere else?
Southwestern Native and Adaptive Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers and Grasses
Trim: 10" x 10"
Pages: 148
Illustrations: 160 color plates
© 1995
Focusing on over two hundred plants, this guide assists the gardener in creating gardens of self-sustaining beauty.