Utopian Vistas
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Lois Palken Rudnick | ISBN: | 9780826326935 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press | Publication: | February 1, 1998 |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lois Palken Rudnick |
| ISBN: | 9780826326935 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Publication: | February 1, 1998 |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Language: | English |
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
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
