Charlie Carrillo: Tradition and Soul / Tradición y Alma

by Barbe Awalt

Carillo, an award-winning santero, is one of the masters of contemporary northern New Mexico devotional art. This beautifully-illustrated book documents his major works since 1978, as well as all of his award-winning retablos (flat pictures of saints) and bultos (three-dimensional statues). Throughout, terms and concepts associated with this lovely artform are defined. Published by LPD Enterprises, 2400 Rio Grande Blvd., Suite 1-213, Albuquerque, NM 87107-3222. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1995

About the author

Barbe Awalt, and her husband Paul Rhetts, have nurtured a love affair with the New Mexican devotional arts for almost two dozen years. They have written or published together about 45 books. Their first book on the Hispanic arts of New MexicoCharlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul (1994)was an instant hit. Other major books include The Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico; Frank Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist; The Regis Santos; and Our Saints Among Us: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art. Residents of the old land-grant village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, they have been publishing Tradicin Revista: A Journal of Spanish Colonial Art & Culture since 1996."