Passions in Print: Private Press Artistry in New Mexico, 1834-present

Passions in Print: Private Press Artistry in New Mexico, 1834-present
ISBN-10
0890134790
ISBN-13
9780890134795
Category
History / Social History
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Authors
Richard Polese, Pamela S. Smith

Description

Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colorful story of New Mexico's book artists and their dedication to a timeless craft. From the work of nineteenth-century printers to the illustrated books created by Santa Fe and Taos art colonists in the 1920s and 1930s to contemporary printings spawned by creative-edge book artists, t profiles twenty-nine presses and artists including Gustave Baumann, Willard Clark, and Linnea Gentry.

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