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June 10, 2008
Claire Farago and Donna Pierce Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. 376 pp.; 91 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0271026901)
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Some of the most recognizable regional art forms in the United States today are New Mexican santos. These religious devotional objects include retablos (painted wood panels) and bultos (polychromed three-dimensional sculpture), and they originated in the Hispanic colonial period of New Mexico (late sixteenth–early nineteenth century). Their fabrication has continued into the twenty-first century, coinciding with a renewed interest in these objects. Numerous publications and exhibitions appearing since the early twentieth century attest to the...