Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
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Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. Pelton chiefly drew on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs to exemplify emotional states. The publication seeks to clarify the artist’s significance and role within the cannon of American Modernism but also against the legacy of European abstraction. It contextualizes her work against her contemporaries, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, and their distinct versions of American spiritual modernism. Pelton’s highly symbolic paintings were inspired by religious sources ranging from Theosophy and Agni Yoga to the spiritual teachings of Dane Rudhyar and Will Levington Comfort. Over three decades she devoted herself to painting spiritual abstractions, which conveyed her “light message to the world.”
The first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades.
Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through these imaginary tableaus, she constructed a fantastic world that allowed her to make sense of that which is uncontrollable, establishing for herself a new universal order rooted in the natural world. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of this understudied painter in more than twenty-two years. Examining the artist''s work in relation to the movements of abstraction, surrealism, and art of the occult, this vibrant book sheds light on Pelton''s remarkable influence on American spiritual modernism.
Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton manifested emotional states in the form of ethereal veils of light, jagged rock forms, shimmering stars, and exaggerated horizons. Through these imaginary tableaus, she constructed a fantastic world that allowed her to make sense of that which is uncontrollable, establishing for herself a new universal order rooted in the natural world. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of this understudied painter in more than twenty-two years. Examining the artist''s work in relation to the movements of abstraction, surrealism, and art of the occult, this vibrant book sheds light on Pelton''s remarkable influence on American spiritual modernism.
- | Author: Gilbert Vicario
- | Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
- | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2022
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language:
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9783777439747
- | ISBN-10: 3777439746
- Author:
- Gilbert Vicario
- Publisher:
- Hirmer Verlag
- Publication Date:
- Apr 28, 2022
- Binding:
- Hardback
- ISBN-13:
- 9783777439747
- ISBN10:
- 3777439746