Utopian Vistas

Utopian Vistas
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780826326935
ISBN-13 : 0826326935
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Book Synopsis Utopian Vistas by : Lois Palken Rudnick

Download or read book Utopian Vistas written by Lois Palken Rudnick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1996 Gaspar Perez de Villegra Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her. Now available in paperback, Utopian Vistas is a chronicle of the house Luhan built in Taos and the poets, painters, photographers, film-makers, writers, educators, and visionaries whose lives and works were affected by the house and its environs. Lois Rudnick weaves a complex tapestry depicting American countercultures in New Mexico from the 1920s to the 1990s. "Should be required reading for art historians,film historians, ex-Beats and hippies, their children and grandchildren, and anyone interested in the possibility of making an imperfect America perfect at last."--Karal Ann Marling


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