Man on Fire / Luis Jiménez / El hombre en llamas

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

The Albuquerque Museum

The boundary between the United States and Mexico has long been troublesome. The Mexican War grew out of a border dispute, and when peace was restored in 1848 the task of redrawing the boundary was assigned to the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey. The art produced for the survey played a crucial role in creating a national appreciation of the desert landscape of the Southwest. This handsomely illustrated book, produced in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, considers the work of John Russell Bartlett, the literary scholar, bibliophile, and artist who was commissioner of the boundary survey, and of Henry Cheever Pratt and Seth Eastman, the survey artists who accompanied him. Historians John Mack Faragher and Sam Truett (Yale) and Oscar J. Martinez (University of Arizona) and art historians Gray Sweeney (Arizona State) and Lucretia Hoover Giese (Rhode Island School of Design) discuss the cultural, political, and environmental context and significance of the survey and the haunting images it produced.

Drawing the Borderline: Artist-Explorers of the U.S.-New Mexico Boundary Survey (Historians of the Frontier and American West)

History & Criticism

Journey Without End: The Life and Art of Lawrence Calcagno

Lawrence Calcagno (1913-93) was a painter of the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism, and, as described by Gerald Nordland, "a proud, self-reliant, and independent figure in postwar American art." He taught at a number of schools and universities, received many invitations for residencies and guest professorships, and had two major retrospective exhibitions in his lifetime, yet his work fell out of favor for a time. The acclaim he hoped for, and deserved, is materializing for the most part posthumously. Nordland says that "his best work adds importantly to the achievements of his Abstract Expressionist generation; and like his peers, his work continued to grow in physical power for many years." This beautiful book surveys the work of a fifty-year career and shows Calcagno to have been an artist of depth and talent.

Campbell, Suzan

Lawrence Calcagno (1913-93) was a painter of the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism, and, as described by Gerald Nordland, "a proud, self-reliant, and independent figure in postwar American art." He taught at a number of schools and universities, received many invitations for residencies and guest professorships, and had two major retrospective exhibitions in his lifetime, yet his work fell out of favor for a time. The acclaim he hoped for, and deserved, is materializing for the most part posthumously. Nordland says that "his best work adds importantly to the achievements of his Abstract Expressionist generation; and like his peers, his work continued to grow in physical power for many years." This beautiful book surveys the work of a fifty-year career and shows Calcagno to have been an artist of depth and talent.

By the early 1970s most art history students knew the work of Larry Bell. His glass cubes made him world famous; his minimalist work, along with that of his contemporaries Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price, and Joe Goode, defined the "L.A. Look." This retrospective includes Bell's evolving zones of experience: the elegant cubes, his monumental glass sculptures, the furniture and games, his vapor drawings and mirage paintings, the light and space explorations including photographs of the leaning room, his recent Sumer/Stickman sculptures, and the Fractions. Zones of Experience spans the artist's work from the early 1960s to the present, and includes a comprehensive biography/bibliography.
Essays are by art historian Peter Frank; writer and photographer Douglas Kent Hall; former art school classmate Dean Cushman; and Larry Bell.

Zones of Experience: The Art of Larry Bell

Albuquerque Museum

The first of three exhibitions presented as part of the City of Albuquerque's Tricentennial celebration. The series offers a broad overview of the rich and varied history of Spanish culture through major works of art. El Alma de España focuses on the work of Spanish Masters from 16th to early 19th century Spain. Included are portraiture, still life, and religious and allegorical themes, many dating from the Golden Age of Spain. Essays by scholars of the Spanish "Golden Age" bring a fresh perspective to this time period. Parallel text in English and Spanish. Full page images.

El Alma de España: The Soul of Spain

Burke, Marcus

Holo, Selma

The second book in a series that presents an overview of the history of Spanish culture through major works of art. A study of the cosmopolitan development of Spanish painting in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century covering the time period between the death of Goya (in 1828) and the rise of Picasso. Highlighted are the successful careers of artists whose works rival those of their better-known French, British, Dutch, and German contemporaries. Parallel text in English and Spanish. Full page images.

Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso

Roglán, Mark A.

The third book from a series of exhibitions that presents an overview of the history of Spanish culture through major works of art. Describes the diversity and evolution of 20th and early 21st century Spanish art from cubism and surrealism to constructivism and geometric abstraction, and details the further development of a tradition of social commentary cultivated by 19th century Spanish artists. Features work from early 20th century Dalí, Picasso and Miró, through mid-century masters, to the cutting edge work of contemporary artists. Parallel text in English and Spanish. Full page images.

Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art from Spain

Parcerisas, Pilar

Alarcó, Paloma

Jeffett, William

Wonders of the Weavers/Maravillas de los tejedores: Nineteenth-Century Río Grande Weavings from the Collection of The Albuquerque Museum

An exhibition presented as part of the City of Albuquerque's Tricentennial celebration. For the Hispanic settlers of 19th century New Mexico, weaving was an important part of everyday life. Featured are thirty-seven of the Museum's most notable examples of Hispanic weavings including jergas, colchas and frazadas. Although originally made to serve a utilitarian function, these works reveal the artistic vision and attention to detail that characterizes fine craftsmanship. Includes a review of the historic collection by noted contemporary New Mexico weavers Irvin and Lisa Trujillo. Technical data for each weaving includes fiber and dye analysis. Additional discussion of looms, dyes, sheep industry, and tourism.

Slaney, Deborah C.

An exhibition presented as part of the City of Albuquerque's Tricentennial celebration. For the Hispanic settlers of 19th century New Mexico, weaving was an important part of everyday life. Featured are thirty-seven of the Museum's most notable examples of Hispanic weavings including jergas, colchas and frazadas. Although originally made to serve a utilitarian function, these works reveal the artistic vision and attention to detail that characterizes fine craftsmanship. Includes a review of the historic collection by noted contemporary New Mexico weavers Irvin and Lisa Trujillo. Technical data for each weaving includes fiber and dye analysis. Additional discussion of looms, dyes, sheep industry, and tourism.

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Man on Fire / Luis Jiménez / El hombre en llamas

Drawing the Borderline: Artist-Explorers of the U.S.-New Mexico Boundary Survey (Historians of the Frontier and American West)

Journey Without End: The Life and Art of Lawrence Calcagno

Journey Without End: The Life and Art of Lawrence Calcagno

Zones of Experience: The Art of Larry Bell

El Alma de España: The Soul of Spain

Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso

Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art from Spain

Wonders of the Weavers/Maravillas de los tejedores: Nineteenth-Century Río Grande Weavings from the Collection of The Albuquerque Museum

Wonders of the Weavers/Maravillas de los tejedores: Nineteenth-Century Río Grande Weavings from the Collection of The Albuquerque Museum