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University of New Mexico Press, Published 1990. Paperback, xxxv, 232 pp.; 29 cm; fifth printing; foreword by Barbara Anderson; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, plans, and drawings, with a large folded map of New Mexico Mission Churches (the publisher's original folding plate, paginated 220) laid in.
In very good condition. Glossy blue pictorial paper covers have bumping and creasing to the edges and corners with a bit of peeling to the plastic coating along the edges, and mild overall shelf wear. Binding tight. Light fading to the endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked.George Kubler's standard scholarly study of the Spanish colonial mission churches of New Mexico, originally published in 1940 by the Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, reissued in 1973 by the University of New Mexico Press, and reaching here its fifth printing in 1990 with a new foreword by Barbara Anderson. Drawing on Kubler's 1935 fieldwork and his 1936 Yale dissertation, the book has remained the standard treatment of the subject. Generously illustrated with historical photographs, measured plans, schematic sections, and drawings.Contents: Part 1: The Missionary Enterprise (The Formative Stage, 1598-1680; Civil Conflict, Recent History); Part 2: The Architecture (Emplacement; Materials; Plan; Structure; Mass; Optical Effects, The Treatment of Light; Secondary Constructions); Part 3: The Buildings (Pre-Rebellion Monuments, 1600-1680; Post-Rebellion Monuments, 1692-1846; Chronological Table of the Churches); Part 4: Historical Summary and Conclusion.