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Through more than 150 photographs representing the work of more than eighty contemporary artists, an album traces the origins and revival of the Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest and exhibits its various media, from weaving to straw arts. Simultaneous. IP.
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Across Frontiers is the first book to do justice to the modern artwork created in the four-hundred-year-old tradition of Hispanic crafts: dramatic Rio Grande weavings, finely crafted woodwork and furniture, imaginative tinwork and straw applique, and richly carved and painted santos. Including interviews with local artists and a fascinating history of the area by author Dexter Cirillo, this portrait of a remarkable cultural landscape describes how Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers have overlapped to create an entirely unique indigenous aesthetic.
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