| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's. By Flannery Burke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 248 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1579-7.)
Flannery Burke's fresh study of the artists, writers, and political activists who circled around Mabel Dodge Luhan's Taos home between 1917 and 1929 reassesses the cultural politics of Santa Fe and Taos and argues for an end to the idea of northern New Mexico as a "world apart" from mainstream national concerns (p. 2). In the period between World War I and the Great Depression, New Mexico's cultural movers and shakers fostered an image of a distinctive cultural landscape. Nonetheless, Burke suggests, they remained deeply involved in and shaped by larger national debates about modernism and authenticity, race and gender.	1
Burke's story centers on Mabel Dodge, who established herself first in Italy and later in Greenwich Village as a voracious (and controlling) collector of artists and activists. Gertrude Stein knew her in Europe. Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, and Lincoln Steffens all frequented her New York salon, and the political journalist John Reed became her lover. When Dodge moved to Taos in 1918, she quickly dumped her third husband and set out to re-create a new bohemian enclave. Eventually, she would marry Tony Lujan, a member of Taos Pueblo, and become a self-proclaimed champion of Indian causes. But, as Burke argues, "in her quest to find the ideal bohemian wonderland, she turned away from the differences and inequalities that made New Mexico a far from perfect place" (p. 37).	. . .

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