Santos and Saints: The Religious Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico

"I have attempted in this book to bring to bear upon New Mexican Spanish religious folk art of the last century - the santos - the kind of analysis by formal criticism, theology, sociology, and psychology which will enable these pictures and statues of saints to illuminate in their special fashion the life of the people for whom and by whom they were made." Thus Father Steele introduced the 1974 hardcover edition of this book. In this paperback edition, he has made certain revisions and provided a 1982 bibliographical update. --- from book's back cover