From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's

by Flannery Burke

Book Overview

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award

They all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw inspiration from New Mexico's mountain desert and "primitive" peoples. As they settled, their quest for the primitive forged a link between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622365
• ISBN13: 9780700622368
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"