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Architecture and art of early Hispanic Colorado

by Adams, Robert
Published by : Colorado Associated University Press (Colorado) Physical details: 234 p. ISBN:870810596.
Subject(s): Adams, Robert -- Photograph | Colorado -- Art and architecture | Art -- American -- General | Architecture, Spanish colonial | Art, Spanish colonial
Year: 1974
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Exploration and settlement -- The early background -- The reconnoitering and defense of southern colorado -- The first villages -- The life of the pioneers -- The deterioration balance -- II. Architecture and art -- Adobe building - Santos and memorials -- III. Illustrations -- Along the Cucharas and Apishapa rivers -- Along the Purgatory river; San Luis and Vicinity -- Conejos and Vicinity -- Along the upper Rio Grande -- Along the San Juan River -- IV. The future -- Appendix -- Suggested reading -- Acknowledgments -- Map

This is the first extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or being transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the southern border of the state once produced. Accompanying the eighty-five full page photographs is a text that briefly outlines the history of pioneer immigration from New Mexico, and describes the way adobe buildings were constructed and other artifacts made. Jacket

41975