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John Gaw Meem at Acoma : The Restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission /

"Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a coope...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wingert-Playdon, Kate, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Active Reading, Authenticity, Memory; 1: Background: A Work of Architecture and Its Contexts; 2: Building to Last: Church Roof, 1924; 3: Claiming Authorship: South Wall and South Tower, 1926; 4: Culture and Tourism: East Façade and North Tower, 1927; 5: Patronage and Questioning of Intentions: Hiatus, 1928; 6: Aesthetics as a Form of Preservation: Tower Completion, 1929; 7: The Long Term at Acoma: Initiatives and Results of the Work in the 1920s; 8: An American Monument: Two Ways of Seeing the Mission.
  • Afterword: A Part of the EnvironmentAppendix: Participants in the 1920s Preservation Project at Acoma; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover.