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This book takes a serious and ironic look at popular icons in western American culture -- cowboy boots and masterpieces in western art -- to explore American cultural values and pervasive themes in twentieth century art. Cowboy boots are examined as markers of western life, as works of art, and subjects of works of art. The author has selected stellar examples of boots made by skilled and famous boot makers, including Lucchese, Tony Lama, and C C McGuffin, to offer a counterpoint to the "fine art" more typically considered. He has also selected drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs that reflect the changing attitudes and perceptions of western culture over the past 50 years and raise conceptual issues about western mores and modern life. Featured are works by Barbara Van Cleve, Frederick Hammersley, Bruce Nauman, Hal West, Luis A Jimenez, Jr., and many others whose art define and redefine aspects of Western mythology and culture. The text examines the contemporary art forms that shape the current representation of the cow-boy and the West in modern life and explores the origins of cowboy imagery; the isolation of ranch life; the non-traditional roles of female cobblers; and the depictions of boot wearers (both male and female) as powerful, sexual, and independent.

A comprehensive presentation is given of all the regional styles of cooking from the island nation of the Philippines. All of the cultural influences that make up this country are presented in the cooking, including Asian, Spanish, Muslim, Portuguese, Mexican, and, of course, Filipino.

"Third Views, Second Sights" presents 43 pairings of photographs, documenting two periods of geologic and environmental changes to the Western landscape while exploring changing human perceptions of landscape.

In the aftermath of the Mexian Revolution of 1910, artists and intellectuals articulated a new vision for the country's future. Featuring the work of artists such as Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Kahlo, and Izquierdo, Mexican Modern re-examines the multiple identities of Mexican modernism and Mexico's unsurpassed position in the arts during the early twentieth century.

Family photographs, personal possessions, oral histories, and reminiscences poignantly illistrate the storeis of early Jewish immigrants in New Mexico.

Through photographs and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of 52 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 Santa Fe and in many remote locales throughout the state.

Ernest Knee captured with intimacy and a sensitive modernist eye the expanse of southwestern landscapes and gave us iconic images of the churches at Ranchos de Taos and Trampas, the ruins at Canyon de Chelly and mesa Verde, the sand hills of Abiquiu and Monument Valley. Knee's landscape work remains a primary achievement in New Mexico's photographic history.