Title: Ritmo del fuego
Description: Ritmo del Fuego/Rhythm of Fire:
The Art and Artisans of Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico.
Ritmo del Fuego/Rhythm of Fire is a large (597 pages) hard cover, bi-lingual,
bi-national edition including essays by 21 contributors. It is copiously illustrated with photographs, charts, and maps.  Contributors include historians, art historians, ethno-historians, geographers, archeologists, and artisans, Mexicans, and Americans. The editor, Michele Feder-Nadoff is an artist who went to Santa Clara del Cobre seven years ago to study with a master coppersmith and conceived the idea for this book. This handsome, remarkable, informative, and useful book includes essays by world-renown scholars such as J. Benedict Warren and Otto Schöndube, and others. Perhaps most noteworthy, the book provides a platform for the voices of the citizens of Santa Clara.  This book is recommended to artists, scholars and libraries. For information: Cuentos Foundation. Dr. Marion Oettinger, Jr., Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art wrote that Ritmo del Fuego “… is a true tour d’force and should become the standard to which future research on Mexican craft must refer.”


General Editor: Michele Feder-Nadoff 
Contributing Authors: Gonzalo Arroyo Riós, Eduardo Barriga, Efraín Cárdenas Garcia, Victor M. Espinosa, Janet Brody Esser, Michele Feder-Nadoff, Eugenia Fernández Villanueva Medina, Dora M.K. de Grinberg, Fernando Guevara Féfer, José Luis Gutiérrez, Maria Ofelia Mendoza Briones, Eugenio Mercado López, Álvaro Ochoa Serrano, Carlos Paredes Martinez, Felipe Pérez Pamatz, María Teresa Pomar Aguilar, Juan Manuel Ramirez Olvera, Hans Roskamp, Otto Schondube Baumbach, Patricia 
Tamayo, J. Benedict Warren
Printed in Morelia, Mexico by Morevallado Editores
Designed by JNL Graphics
Hard-cover, 597 pages, 500 full-color photos, bilingual (Spanish / English), $80.00 
Published by the Cuentos Foundation, 2004. 
ISBN 0-9741171-0-2
Subjects: Mexican Art, Handicraft, History, Copperwork, Indian metal-work, Artisans
Places: Mexico, Santa Clara del Cobre (Mexico), Santa Clara del Cobre