Title Utopian vistas : the Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American counterculture / Lois Palken Rudnick

Edition Pbk. ed., 1998 Published Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 1998, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 401 pages) : illustrations Contents Anglo expatriates and the New Mexico landscape -- Visitors, 1918-1929 -- Visitors, 1930-1950 -- Dennis Hopper and post World War II American culture -- The great hippie invasion -- Hopper comes to Taos -- Legacies of the sixties -- Las Palomas de Taos Summary Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her. Utopian Vistas is a chronicle of the house Mabel Dodge Luhan built in Taos and the poets, painters, photographers, filmmakers, writers, educators, and visionaries whose lives and works were affected by the house and its environs. Skillfully combining scholarship and a gift for storytelling, author Lois Rudnick weaves a complex tapestry depicting American counter-cultures in New Mexico from the 1920s to the 1990s. Against a backdrop of Southwest scenery, Indian and Hispanic cultures, and expatriate Anglos, the story of the Mabel Dodge Luhan house unfolds from its inception in 1918 to its modern-day incarnation as a center for alternate education. Meticulous architectural descriptions are juxtaposed with insightful comments on the personalities - from D.H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keeffe to Dennis Hopper and George McGovern - who have owned or visited the Luhan property. Inter-ethnic strife and ongoing poverty, hippies and Chicano radicals, gifted artisans and doped-up geniuses, mystics and ghosts mingle together in this compelling story of the house that Mabel built Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-384) and index Notes Print version record Subject Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 -- Homes and haunts -- New Mexico -- Taos SUBJECT Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 fast Subject Mabel Dodge Luhan House (Taos, N.M.) SUBJECT Mabel Dodge Luhan House (Taos, N.M.) fast Subject Intellectuals -- New Mexico -- Taos Radicalism -- New Mexico -- Taos Subculture -- New Mexico -- Taos HISTORY -- State & Local. Homes Intellectual life Intellectuals Radicalism Subculture SUBJECT Taos (N.M.) -- Intellectual life Subject New Mexico -- Taos Form Electronic book LC no. 95032546 ISBN 0585277974 9780585277974

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