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Author : Robert C. Goss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The San Xavier Altarpiece written by Robert C. Goss and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvonne Lange
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522002
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Mission San Xavier Del Bac written by Yvonne Lange and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the iconography of San Xavier Mission identifies devotional representations and determines the organizational concepts underlying their placements in the Spanish mission church south of Tucson, Arizona, examining the sculpture on the facade and inside, along with furnishings such as altars and altarpieces and their accompanying imagery, and paintings in fresco and on canvas.
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816528400
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book A Gift of Angels written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and another time, while its beauty is universal and timeless. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a two-century-old Spanish church in southern Arizona located just a few miles from downtown Tucson, a metropolis of more than half a million people in the American Southwest. A National Historic Landmark since 1963, the missionÕs graceful baroque art and architecture have drawn visitors from all over the world. Now Bernard FontanaÑthe leading expert on San XavierÑand award-winning photographer Edward McCain team up to bring us a comprehensive view of the mission as weÕve never seen it before. With 200 stunning full-color photographs and incisive text illuminating the religious, historical, and motivational context of these images, A Gift of Angels is a must-have for tourists, scholars, and other visitors to San Xavier. From its glorious architecture all the way down to the finest details of its art, Mission San Xavier del Bac is indeed a gift of angels.
Author : Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544859
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A Gift of Angels written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and another time, while its beauty is universal and timeless. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a two-century-old Spanish church in southern Arizona located just a few miles from downtown Tucson, a metropolis of more than half a million people in the American Southwest. A National Historic Landmark since 1963, the mission’s graceful baroque art and architecture have drawn visitors from all over the world. Now Bernard Fontana—the leading expert on San Xavier—and award-winning photographer Edward McCain team up to bring us a comprehensive view of the mission as we’ve never seen it before. With 200 stunning full-color photographs and incisive text illuminating the religious, historical, and motivational context of these images, A Gift of Angels is a must-have for tourists, scholars, and other visitors to San Xavier. From its glorious architecture all the way down to the finest details of its art, Mission San Xavier del Bac is indeed a gift of angels.
Author : James S. Griffith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654042X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Saints, Statues, and Stories written by James S. Griffith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life-sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cristo Negro de Aconchi . . . So describes well-known and beloved folklorist James S. Griffith as he takes us back through the decades to a town in northern Sonora where a statue is saved—and in so doing, a community is saved as well. In Saints, Statues, and Stories Griffith shares stories of nearly sixty years of traveling through Sonora. As we have come to expect through these journeys, “Big Jim”—as he is affectionately known by many—offers nothing less than the living traditions of Catholic communities. Themes of saints as agents of protection or community action are common throughout Sonora: a saint coming out of the church to protect the village, a statue having a say in where it resides and paying social calls to other communities, or a beloved image rescued from destruction and then revered on a private altar. A patron saint saves a village from outside attackers in one story—a story that has at least ten parallels in Sonora’s former mission communities. Details may vary, but the general narrative remains the same: when hostile nonbelievers attack the village, the patron saint of the church foils them. Griffith uncovers the meanings behind the devotional uses of religious art from a variety of perspectives—from artist to audience, preservationist to community member. The religious artworks transcend art objects, Griffith believes, and function as ways of communicating between this world and the next. Setting the stage with a brief geography, Griffith introduces us to roadside shrines, artists, fiestas, saints, and miracles. Full-color images add to the pleasure of this delightful journey through the churches and towns of Sonora.
Author : Jacinto Quirarte
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787820
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions written by Jacinto Quirarte and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.
Author : James S. Griffith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533415
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Beliefs and Holy Places written by James S. Griffith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region once known as Pimería Alta—now southern Arizona and northern Sonora—has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this cultural commingling. Folklorist Jim Griffith has lived in the Pimería Alta for more than thirty years, visiting its holy places and attending its fiestas, and has uncovered a background of belief, tradition, and history lying beneath the surface of these cultural expressions. In Beliefs and Holy Places, he reveals some of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to places within that region, describing the cultural and religious meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and places have in turn created relationships between places, a spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. Throughout the book, Griffith shows how culture moves from legend to art to belief to practice, all the while serving as a dynamic link between past and future. Now as the desert gives way to newcomers, Griffith's book offers visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to share in these rich traditions.
Author : Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Gemäldegalerie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Picture Gallery written by Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Gemäldegalerie and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Gabriel MelŽndez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522170
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Multicultural Southwest written by Anthony Gabriel MelŽndez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, fiction, poetry, newspaper articles, and interviews with local inhabitants demonstrating the cultural diversity of the Southwest.
Author : Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest written by Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Arizona History written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Lamberton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501181
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Dry River written by Ken Lamberton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and writer Alison Deming once noted, “In the desert, one finds the way by tracing the aftermath of water . . . ” Here, Ken Lamberton finds his way through a lifetime of exploring southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz River. This river—dry, still, and silent one moment, a thundering torrent of mud the next—serves as a reflection of the desert around it: a hint of water on parched sand, a path to redemption across a thirsty landscape. With his latest book, Lamberton takes us on a trek across the land of three nations—the United States, Mexico, and the Tohono O’odham Nation—as he hikes the river’s path from its source and introduces us to people who draw identity from the river—dedicated professionals, hardworking locals, and the author’s own family. These people each have their own stories of the river and its effect on their lives, and their narratives add immeasurable richness and depth to Lamberton’s own astute observations and picturesque descriptions. Unlike books that detail only the Santa Cruz’s decline, Dry River offers a more balanced, at times even optimistic, view of the river that ignites hope for reclamation and offers a call to action rather than indulging in despair and resignation. At once a fascinating cultural history lesson and an important reminder that learning from the past can help us fix what we have damaged, Dry River is both a story about the amazing complexity of this troubled desert waterway and a celebration of one man’s lifelong journey with the people and places touched by it.
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southern California Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Neuerburg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Angel on the Cloud, Or "Anglo-American Myopia" Revisited written by Norman Neuerburg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacinto Quirarte
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book Chicano Art History written by Jacinto Quirarte and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer L. Jenkins
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534535
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Celluloid Pueblo written by Jennifer L. Jenkins and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Cs of Arizona—copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate—formed the basis of the state’s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national appetite for all things western, Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features in 1936 to document the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona, the U.S. Southwest, and northern Mexico. Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. Active during a thirty-year period of profound growth and transformation, the Herberts created a dynamic visual record of the region, and their archival films now serve as a time capsule of the Sunbelt in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing upon a ten-year career with Fox, Western Ways owner-operator Charles Herbert brought a newshound’s sensibility and acute skill at in-camera editing to his southwestern subjects. The Western Ways films provided counternarratives to Hollywood representations of the West and established the regional identity of Tucson and the borderlands. Jennifer L. Jenkins’s broad-sweeping book examines the Herberts’ work on some of the first sound films in the Arizona borderlands and their ongoing promotion of the Southwest. The book covers the filmic representation of Native and Mexican lifeways, Anglo ranching and leisure, Mexican missions and tourism, and postwar borderlands prosperity and progressivism. The story of Western Ways closely follows the boom-and-bust arc of the midcentury Southwest and the constantly evolving representations of an exotic—but safe and domesticated—frontier.
Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reference Library of Hispanic America written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Hispanics in America including their history, immigration laws, education, business, language, religion, literature, art, music, and prominent people.
