Across Frontiers Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico

Located on a high desert plateau between the Rio Grande & the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the villages of northern New Mexico dot the magnificent countryside between Santa Fe & Taos. Colonized by the Spanish more than 200 years before becoming an Amer. territory in 1846, these communities inherited & preserved a rich legacy of Spanish art traditions. Today, these popular crafts are undergoing a renaissance fostered by a new generation of New Mexican artists. This is the first book to do justice to the modern artwork created in this tradition of Hispanic crafts: weavings, woodwork & furniture, tinwork & straw appliqu}, & richly carved & painted santos. Includes interviews with local artists & a fascinating history of the area.Cirillo, Dexter is the author of 'Across Frontiers Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico', published 1998 under ISBN 9780756776510 and ISBN 0756776511.