Mabels Santa Fe And Taos

Author : Elmo Baca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756766702
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos written by Elmo Baca and published by . This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the 20th cent., creative people in Europe and America were seeking a new way of life that offered an escape from Victorian morality and worldview. Women were emerging as a social and political force intent on redefining themselves. New Mexico's communities of Santa Fe and Taos offered Amer. versions of Paris. Lured by the presence of wealthy socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan, a dazzling array of artists, including D.H. Lawrence, Paul Strand, Maynard Dixon, Leopold Stokowski, Robinson Jeffers, Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others, found inspiration in the sun and light of the high desert. Here is a remembrance of the bohemian years of NM's artist colonies, recalling an era that has profoundly influenced our postmodern world. 150 b&w photos.

Author : Elmo Baca
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780879059132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos written by Elmo Baca and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remembrance of the bohemian years of New Mexico's artist colonies, recalling an era and lifestyle that has influenced our own post-modern world.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611391377
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of "being nobody in myself," despite years of psychoanalysis and a luxurious lifestyle on two continents among the leading literary, art and intellectual personalities of the day. "Winter in Taos" unfolds in an entirely different pattern, uncluttered with noteworthy names and ornate details. With no chapters dividing the narrative, Luhan describes her simple life in Taos, New Mexico, this "new world" she called it, from season to season, following a thread that spools out from her consciousness as if she's recording her thoughts in a journal. "My pleasure is in being very still and sensing things," she writes, sharing that pleasure with the reader by describing the joys of adobe rooms warmed in winter by aromatic cedar fires; fragrant in spring with flowers; and scented with homegrown fruits and vegetables being preserved and pickled in summer. Having wandered the world, Luhan found her home at last in Taos. "Winter in Taos" celebrates the spiritual connection she established with the "deep living earth" as well as the bonds she forged with Tony Luhan, her "mountain." This moving tribute to a land and the people who eked a life from it reminds readers that in northern New Mexico, where the seasons can be harshly beautiful, one can bathe in the sunshine until "'untied are the knots in the heart,' for there is nothing like the sun for smoothing out all difficulties." Born in 1879 to a wealthy Buffalo family, Mabel Dodge Luhan earned fame for her friendships with American and European artists, writers and intellectuals and for her influential salons held in her Italian villa and Greenwich Village apartments. In 1917, weary of society and wary of a world steeped in war, she set down roots in remote Taos, New Mexico, then publicized the tiny town's inspirational beauty to the world, drawing a steady stream of significant guests to her adobe estate, including artist Georgia O'Keeffe, poet Robinson Jeffers, and authors D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Luhan could be difficult, complex and often cruel, yet she was also generous and supportive, establishing a solid reputation as a patron of the arts and as an author of widely read autobiographies. She died in Taos in 1962.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865345945
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lorenzo in Taos," is written loosely in the form of letters to and from D.H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence, Robinson Jeffers, and Luhan. The book is a highly personal and most informative account of an intense relationship with a great writer.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826325106
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge of Taos Desert written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving. "I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826309716
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge of Taos Desert written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical account describing Luhan's first months in New Mexico.

Author : Marta Weigle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865346505
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe and Taos written by Marta Weigle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important 20th-century American art colonies. This volume focuses on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets--D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Author : Lynn Cline
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826338518
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Pilgrims written by Lynn Cline and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates both the well- and lesser-known literary figures of New Mexico, whose collaborative efforts created enduring literary colonies. This book also discusses fifteen writers and concludes with walking and driving tours of Santa Fe and Taos.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taos and Its Artists written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an essay about the artists in Taos, New Mexico: brief biographies, portraits, and samples of their work. [Luhan often invited artists and writers to Taos.].

Author : Valmai Howe Elkins
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611395739
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Mabel written by Valmai Howe Elkins and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the mountains of New Mexico, Taos has long been a magnet for artists. When writer Valmai Howe Elkins, escaping brutal east coast winters, buys a tiny house without even seeing inside, lured by the way the light shimmers between the branches of an old apple tree, she is intrigued by the startling adobe house at the top of the lane. “That’s the Mabel Dodge Luhan House,” the realtor tells her. “Mabel was a wealthy socialite who became a patron of the arts. She married Tony Luhan from the Pueblo and they built that house. She was the person who invited Georgia O’Keeffe to the American Southwest.” Mabel, born in 1879, turned her back on a glittering life in Florence, Italy and New York to savor the simple pleasures of Taos and her people. Inspired by Mabel’s book, Winter in Taos, together with the extraordinary house and its view across the sage plains to the Sacred Mountain, Elkins regains her health, makes friends and plunges into Taos adventures. The book is an invitation to readers to explore the lives of rebellious women. The author experiences the power of place and a quirky house which continues to create its own magical world.