Faces of Market: Traditional Spanish & Contemporary Hispanic Market

by Barbe Awalt, Paul Rhetts

The Spanish and Hispanic Markets have long been honored as the largest Hispanic art markets in the country. As one focuses on New Mexico's Statehood Centennial in 2012, it is appropriate that these traditions be celebrated and remembered. For the first time photographs from both markets over the last twenty years are presented like a scrapbook or album. In addition to photographs of over two hundred artists, resource listings are included on traditional Hispanic art and museums with Hispanic art collections, as well as Best of Show winners of both markets and the Masters Awards for Lifetime Achievement. The history on both markets is explored-how they came to be and what is involved in both markets. It is a record of these markets over almost two decades. About the Authors Awalt and Rhetts, authors of a dozen books on the Hispanic art of New Mexico, are the publishers of Tradicin Revista magazine, the only magazine that focuses on the art and culture of the Southwest. They have also published over 100 books on the art, culture, and history of New Mexico.

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2010

About the author

Barbe Awalt, and her husband Paul Rhetts, have nurtured a love affair with the New Mexican devotional arts for almost two dozen years. They have written or published together about 45 books. Their first book on the Hispanic arts of New MexicoCharlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul (1994)was an instant hit. Other major books include The Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico; Frank Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist; The Regis Santos; and Our Saints Among Us: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art. Residents of the old land-grant village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, they have been publishing Tradicin Revista: A Journal of Spanish Colonial Art & Culture since 1996."