Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture

By Lois Palken Rudnick

Book Overview

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. Now available in paperback, Utopian Vistas is a chronicle of the house Luhan built in Taos and the poets, painters, photographers, film-makers, writers, educators, and visionaries whose lives and works were affected by the house and its environs. Lois Rudnick weaves a complex tapestry depicting American countercultures in New Mexico from the 1920s to the 1990s.

"Should be required reading for art historians, film historians, ex-Beats and hippies, their children and grandchildren, and anyone interested in the possibility of making an imperfect America perfect at last."--Karal Ann Marling

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826319262
• ISBN13: 9780826319265
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"