via Tomas Jaehn, H-NewMexico Editor & Beth Silbergleit, UNM
The Historical Society of New Mexico and the Office of the State Historian present the 2012 History Scholars Lecture Series: Laughing Horse Magazine and Modernism in New Mexico. Free and open to the public, the lecture, co-hosted by the Center for Southwest Research, 2pm Wednesday, April 25, at the University of New Mexico / Zimmerman Library / Waters Room 105 / Albuquerque, the New Mexico was central to the development of American modernism in the 1920s and 1930s, and Laughing Horse magazine (ancestor of Taos' The Horse Fly) documented the distinctive form taken by modernism in New Mexico (see also Collector's Guide article). Crucial to the arts and literary communities in Santa Fe and Taos, Laughing Horse provided a publication venue for established writers such as Mary Austin and D.H. Lawrence as well as younger writers like Lynn Riggs and Frank Waters. The magazine also featured iconic visual images that reinforced the magazine's regionalist, yet also modernist, aesthetic.
Ed note: Walter "Spud'' Johnson (1897-1968) was a New Mexico editor, essayist and poet; Laughing Horse was the iconoclastic literary magazine which he began in 1922 at the University of California and published intermittently for almost 20 more years in Santa Fe and Taos.
Daniel Worden, Visiting Assistant Professor in the UNM Department of English and author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism (2011) will discuss Laughing Horse's unique blend of regionalism and modernism as well as the magazine's negotiation of elite aesthetics and the tourist industry.
Links:
- Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse, Sharyn R. Udall
- Historical Society of New Mexico
- Center for Southwest Research
- NM Office of the State Historian
- 100 Years of Enchantment: Centennial History
- Official site of the NM Centennial
- H-NewMexico, NMHistory List at H-Net
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