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Publication Date: March 22, 2005
Paper $21.95, ISBN 0-87480-799-9
152 pp., 7 x 9, 10 color illustrations, 1 photograph
University of Utah Press
Market for First Sight of the Desert~~
•Women will trace the journey toward independence and autonomy through the lives of two women who share an artistic sensibility in this blend of memoir and biography.
•Art lovers will discover the sense of place that gives meaningful context to portraits, woodblock prints and plein air landscape painting in a narrative linked to the themes of ten color illustrations.
•Western History scholars will capture the vibrancy in a pioneer-era desert community and the power in enduring western land.
•Artists will connect to the women’s drives to find time and space to create and will recognizethe impulse of the art ethic.
•Mormons will see their culture from the perspective of two women who struggle to meet its expectations.
•Environmentalists will connect to the women’s need for their own sense of place.
•Enthusiasts of the Arts and Crafts Movement will discover a story of life lived by the ideals of simplicity and purpose.
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