Books
We carry a large selection of art related books in our stores in New Mexico. You can place an order for any of them right now by calling our toll free number, 1(800) 331-6375. We answer the phone Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Mountain Time. You can also place an order by e-mailing us at mailorder@artisan-santafe.com.
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"Acrylic Revolution" by Nancy Reyner
'Acrylic Revolution' will show readers everything they need to know to be successful in their acrylic painting projects. With over 101 of the most popular, interesting, and indispensable tricks for working with acrylic -- each with its own step-by-step demonstration -- there is literally page after page of acrylic instruction and inspiration for readers to discover. A gallery of finished art at the back of the book will show readers how to combine different tricks to use in their artwork offering them real-life applications for acrylic techniques.
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"Art Journey New Mexico" from the editors of "The Collector's Guide"
Nothing compares to the creative spirit found throughout this inspiring land and the artists who inhabit it. Art Journey New Mexico communicates the stunning vistas, distinctive architecture and sparkling light only found here. This dynamic showcase of the work of 104 of New Mexico's top gallery artists takes you on a trip inside their world by presenting personal favorites and major pieces in this beautiful book. Discover the insights, techniques and inspiration of these artists, as well as how their work expresses their creative spark. The art is diverse, covering a variety of mediums, subjects and styles ranging from Native American and Spanish Colonial traditions to cutting-edge, modern interpretations.
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Price: $45.00
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"Drawings Watercolors Paintings" by Sam Scott
"Sam Scott is and always has been a painter in pursuit of Beauty. This is an uncomfortable phrase to the cynical, but Scott’s beauty resides only at great depths. It is hard-won and tentative. It emerges for this artist from the shadows as well as by the light of his noon Santa Fe sky. When he leaves the comfort of home, working in ways that are new to him, Scott travels well and freely. He generously reveals to us with his mark how it went and who he met along the way.
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"Encounters with Beauty", by Sam Scott
"To view from where Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas... Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there. Sam Scott is and always has been a painter in pursuit of beauty." - Jennifer Doran "We seem to need art now, more than ever before, to do what it always has done, which is to get our singular, internal, and imaginative responses to our world out into the world.... During the forty-plus years of his life as a painter, while so much of the art world has turned to the cold severities of the conceptual and the analytic, Sam Scott has remained committed to an art that is sensual and synthesizing. Now, as art seems increasingly determined to become what Peter Plagens calls 'the putatively transgressive arm of the fashion and entertainment industry,' Sam Scott makes his case for the primal place of art. He wants to remind us of the delicate balance that must be maintained in the relationship of art and life." - from William Peterson's Introduction"
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"Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Color" by Kevin Macpherson
These pages practically glow with Kevin Macpherson's rich and powerful paintings. A master of painting outdoors from nature, Macpherson shares his techniques for quickly capturing the mood of a scene in bold, direct brushstrokes. His step at a time instruction makes it easy. It is simply a matter of painting the colors you see. Follow his lead and you, too, can create landscapes and still lifes in a vibrant impressionistic style.
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"Frederick Hammersley"
Reflecting Frederick Hammersley's stylistic and thematic breadth, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of his work and his process in figurative and abstract painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and experimental computer-based images, as well as in his extensive journals and sketchbooks. This significant publication is the artist's first major monograph.
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"Image Transfer Workshop" by Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson
Whether you are experienced with image transfers or have never tried them, you will find ITW an invaluable tool in learning new ways to transfer images from one surface to another. How many times have you read about a technique, followed all the directions only to have it fail? We thought it would be a good to know why it didn’t work so you can get to the solution or explore the happy accidents so, in addition to the step-by-step instructions, we have troubleshooting for all the different techniques. Image transfers can create a whole new look and layer to your artwork and crafts. We will show you 35 ways to transfer images, some of which we think are new. We also have four projects that we created and walk you through the processes we used.
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Price: $24.99
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"Joie De Vivre" by Evelyne Boren
Evelyne Boren's internationally acclaimed paintings reflect her fascinating experiences, her cosmopolitan lifestyle, and her unquenchable joie de vivre.
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"New Mexico Artists At Work" by Dana Newmann
Through photos and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of fifty-two New Mexico artists whose work environments are as varied as the artwork produced in them. Among those represented are contemporary painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramic and textile artists, video and conceptual artists living in the art capitals of Taos and New Mexico and in many remote locales throughout the state. These artist studios defy generalisation, and the interview-based portraits and photos document a range of creative approaches, both practical and aesthetic, that these artists bring to the task of organising and inhabiting their creative spaces.
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"New Mexico Millennium Collection" by Laichas, Fowler and Stem
The New Mexico Millennium Collection presents 160 full-color images which reflect the beauty, quality, and variety of works of art created or displayed in New Mexico, works that have made the state such a prominent art center. The Collection features many of the masters of the past and present-day notables, alongside the stars of the future. From the early Taos artists to today's cutting-edge painters, from Native American weavers and early Spanish santeros to internationally celebrated sculptors, and from a multicultural mix of works by Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglos, to art and relics from the seven continents, New Mexico's diversity attracts serious collectors and art lovers from around the world. The New Mexico Millennium Collection is about much of what has caused and continues to cause that attraction. The visual beauty of the art and the insightful essays will delight even the most sophisticated art cognoscenti. What may surprise almost everyone is the depth and scope that is New Mexico Art as we enter the new millennium.
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"Painting the Landscape in Pastel", by Albert Handell
Capture the luminous color of landscapes with this inspiring approach to pastel painting. Written by two of the west's most respected pastel artists.
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"Paintings of the High Desert" by Walt Gonske
“Paintings of the High Desert” is a beautiful book featuring over fifty plates of Walt Gonske’s paintings. The foreword by Bill Rey is about Walt including a short biographyof the artist. This book really highlights Walt’s painterly ability to reproduce landscapes in bold, vibrant brushstrokes. Walt lives in Taos, New Mexico and travels all over the United States in his “paint-mobile” in pursuit of subjects to paint.
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"Paintings of the Southwest" by Arnold Skolnick
The Southwest, particularly Arizona and New Mexico, comes alive in this book as a land ablaze with colors and brilliance uniquely its own. Here the deep blue expanse of sky meets the fiery reds and oranges of breathtaking canyons, deserts, and deep valleys, which stretch into rugged mountains. This complex and diverse landscape and the extraordinary cultures thriving within it have been a wellspring of inspiration for artists and source of wonder for many. In paintings by Victor Higgins, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, Maynard Dixon, Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others we, too, share in visions of the beauty, mystery, and grandeur that has drawn artists and travelers alike to the Southwest. The breathtaking expanse of the Southwest is nowhere more accessible than in the over ninety glorious landscapes of this book. Accompanying the art are selected writings of such famous authors as D. H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Suzan Campbell's introduction briefly traces the history of the Southwest along with its continual allure for both regional and visiting artists.
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"Taos Artists Founders" by Bill Rakocy
"Taos Artists Founders,Confessions Of A Curator, Fine Art Sketch Book Documentary" has everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Taos, the Taos artists founders, and the life and times they lived in.
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"Taos Moderns, Art of the New", by David L. Witt
As defined by Witt, the Taos Moderns were mature artists who came to this special part of New Mexico for its natural beauty in the 1940s and 1950s. Though coming directly after the successful Taos Society of Artists, they had no formal organization. According to Witt, the Moderns focused "on motif and the manner in which an artwork is developed." They held deep, nearly mystical respect for the Native American culture and were drawn to the quality of light, the distant gorges, and the color and sky of Taos. The book's many photographs, which place the Taos Moderns in the social and geographical context of northern New Mexico, include 40 color plates that prove the variety of work produced there. A valuable contribution to the merger of artists, place, and time that made the Taos Moderns, this is recommended for most libraries.
- David Bryant, Belleville P.L., N.J.
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"The Art Of New Mexico, How The West Is One" by Joseph Traugott
Using the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., curator Traugott explores the rich and varied history of art in New Mexico and its place in the national canon. Since its founding in 1917, the museum's leadership has been deliberate in its curatorial choices and generous in its documentary urges, and so Traugott has a great deal to work with, from debates about architecture and interior design to decisions on the nature of each round of acquisitions, offering a surprisingly complete record of the institution's growth and development. As such, it should find a broad audience: art lovers will relish the ample plates explained in straightforward, concise prose; art historians will appreciate the wealth of details about artists, movements and the museum; and history buffs will appreciate the story of the region as revealed through its art. As the title suggests, Traugott aims to find the unity in New Mexico's diverse artistic heritage, which at times results in generalizations and backpedaling, especially in sometimes-breezy treatment of colonialism. Readers seeking a more critical consideration of the political issues involved (U.S. treatment of Native Americans and Mexicans, the stereotyped image of the "native") should look elsewhere; those who come for the art won't be disappointed.
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