Across frontiers
Subtitle: Hispanic crafts of New Mexico
By: by Dexter Cirillo, in collaboration with Nancy Pletka Benkof ; photographs by Eric Swanson.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Handicraft -- New Mexico; Artisans -- New Mexico
Description: Across Frontiers is the first book to do justice to the modern artwork created in the four-hundred-year-old tradition of Hispanic crafts: dramatic Rio Grande weavings, finely crafted woodwork and furniture, imaginative tinwork and straw applique, and richly carved and painted santos.

Including interviews with local artists and a fascinating history of the area by author Dexter Cirillo, this portrait of a remarkable cultural landscape describes how Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers have overlapped to create an entirely unique indigenous aesthetic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-154) and index.