Since the mid-1980s, Ginny Ruffner has been recognized worldwide as one of the major artists of the modern studio glass movement. Her lampworked glass sculpture, which has been selected for shows and museums in Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and the United States, has dazzled audiences with its playful imagery, insightful allusions, and intelligent commentary. In Why Not? The Art of Ginny Ruffner, author Bonnie J. Miller captures Ruffner's creative imagination and indomitable spirit. Drawing on ten years of writing about glass art in the Northwest and seven years of acquaintance with Ruffner's work, Miller analyzes her art with candor, humor, and a gifted critical eye. The voices of philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto and the artist herself add to the story of Ruffner's remarkable life and work, complementing the full-color illustrations of more than fifty major works.

Why Not?: The Art of Ginny Ruffner

Arts & Photography

Danto, Arthur

Miller, Bonnie J.

Individual Artists

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Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this book is the classic introductory text on this appealing Native American art form.

Navajo Weaving

KENT, KATE PECK

History & Criticism

Talking with the clay: The art of Pueblo pottery

Stephen Trimble conveys the beauty and fine craftsmanship of Pueblo Indian pottery and shows how pottery making is closely connected to the Pueblos' beliefs, their ties to the land, their role in the modern economic world, and their feelings of identity. With over 75 photographs, Talking with the Clay illustrates all the major pottery types, from the glittering micaceous of Taos and Picuris to the red and gold polychromes of Hopi. Stephen Trimble has become a primary narrator of the story of the Southwestern Indians through his books Our Voices, Our Land; The People: Indians of the American Southwest; The Village of Blue Stone; and an annual calendar based on The People. He has lived in the Four Corners states all his life and makes his home in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children.

Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Stephen Trimble

Crafts & Hobbies

Southwestern Indian Baskets: Their History and Their Makers

A complete and comprehensive history of the craft of basket-making. Includes a discussion of the concept of basketry as a form of art.

Whiteford, Andrew Hunter

Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City

History

Americas

The prehistoric people christened "Hohokam" by twentieth century archaeologists lived in the Sonoran desert of what is now southern Arizona from AD1 to the fifteenth century. This book summarizes, in non-technical language, archaeologists' current understanding of the Hohokam and their way of life, their religion, the environment in which they lived, their crafts, and their agriculture.

The Hohokam: Ancient People of the Desert

Politics & Social Sciences

Noble, David Grant

Archaeology

A new tradition of Pueblo fine art painting arose in the first three decades of the twentieth century, born out of a dynamic encounter between the Pueblo and Euro-American communities in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico. In Pueblo Indian Painting, art historian J. J. Brody presents the first complete history of this vibrant art and places it squarely within the contexts of Pueblo culture and Euro-American modernism, bringing long-overdue recognition to the tradition and its preeminent practitioners as a vital part of American art history.

Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition in New Mexico, 1900-1930

Brody, J. J.

The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the 19th century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures, called basketmaker. Rancher Richard Wetherill and numerous other adventurers, scholars, preachers, and businessmen mounted expeditions into the area now known as Grand Gulch. With varying degrees of scientific rigor, they mapped and dug the canyon's rich archaeological sites, removing large numbers of artifacts and burial goods to exhibit or sell back home.Almost 100 years after these explorers matte their way through the Gulch, a group of avocational archaeologists began to track the original explorers by tracing the signatures they had left on the canyon walls as they moved from site to site. This adventure grew into the Whetherill-Grand Gulch Project, an effort to recover the history and discover the current whereabouts of the many artifacts extracted from southeastern Utah's arid soil.In Cowboys and Cave Dwellers, Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson tell the two intertwined stories of the early archaeological expeditions into Grand Gulch and the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Project. In the process, they describe what we now know about Basketmaker culture and present a stirring plea for the preservation of our nation's priceless archaeological heritage. Cowboys and Cave DwelLers is lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, many of them by Bruce Hucko, author and photographer of Where There Is No Name for Art.

Cowboys & Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch

Williamson, Ray A.

Blackburn, Fred M.

Luminous golden and sparkling black pottery fashioned from mica-rich clays is the subject of this first comprehensive study of micaceous pottery in New Mexico. With over 60 color photographs, All That Glitters explores an exciting comtemporary art form as it evolved from the traditional culinary ware made by Pueblo and Jicarilla Apache Indians of the Northern Rio Grande region for at least 500 years.

All That Glitters: The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico

Anderson, Duane

This volume brings together some of the leading scholars in language ideology research. Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other. The essays include reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political discourses by journalists and elite image advisors, and the impact of missionary-introduced literacy on indigenous peoples.

Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities and Identities (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Paul V. Kroskrity

Anthropology

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