Agnes Pelton

Author : Gilbert Vicario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777439746

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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. Exhibition Schedule Palm Springs Art Museum Palm Springs, CA November 19, 2020-September 6, 2021

Author : Michael Zakian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : UOM:39015034932221

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Author : Mari Coates
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631526886

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The Pelton Papers by Mari Coates Pdf

A richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life, first to a Long Island windmill, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings.

Author : Michael Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942884877

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Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group by Michael Duncan Pdf

Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.

Author : Karen Moss
Publisher : Merrell
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080858833

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Illumination by Karen Moss Pdf

A celebration of the careers of four extraordinary American women artists. This is the first publication to bring together the work of these four important American women Modernists.

Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226820910

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Spiritual Moderns by Erika Doss Pdf

Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá’í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.

Author : Margaret Stainer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032484086

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Author : Michael Zakian
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : UOM:39015031832135

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Agnes Pelton by Michael Zakian Pdf

Author : S. Elizabeth
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780711254169

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The Art of the Occult by S. Elizabeth Pdf

A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences. Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the beginning of human creativity itself, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and place – but what is it that attracts artists to these magical realms? From theosophy and kabbalah, to the zodiac and alchemy; spiritualism and ceremonial magic, to the elements and sacred geometry – The Art of the Occult introduces major occult themes and showcases the artists who have been influenced and led by them. Discover the symbolic and mythical images of the Pre-Raphaelites; the automatic drawing of Hilma af Klint and Madge Gill; Leonora Carrington's surrealist interpretation of myth, alchemy and kabbalah; and much more. Featuring prominent, marginalised and little-known artists, The Art of the Occult crosses mystical spheres in a bid to inspire and delight. Divided into thematic chapters (The Cosmos, Higher Beings, Practitioners), the book acts as an entertaining introduction to the art of mysticism – with essays examining each practice and over 175 artworks to discover. The art of the occult has always existed in the margins but inspired the masses, and this book will spark curiosity in all fans of magic, mysticism and the mysterious.

Author : Leigh E. Schmidt,Sally M. Promey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253002167

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American Religious Liberalism by Leigh E. Schmidt,Sally M. Promey Pdf

Religious liberalism in America has often been equated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. By contrast, American Religious Liberalism draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America's religious past and present in this richly provocative volume.

Author : Jori Finkel
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Artists
ISBN : 3791356593

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It Speaks to Me by Jori Finkel Pdf

Bernard Piffaretti on Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles by Jean-Antoine Watteau -- Ana Prvacki on Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne by Gustave Courbet -- Pipilotti Rist on Shiva Nataraja from Tamil Nadu -- Julião Sarmento on Portrait of a young woman by Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Mithu Sen on a red sandstone torso from Harappa -- Stephen Shore on the Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio -- Shinique Smith on Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg -- Kishio Suga on Tokyo stone line by Richard Long -- Do Ho Suh on Kumgang Mountain by Jeong Seon -- Diana Thater on Video flag Z by Nam June Paik -- Rikrit Tiravanija on Venus of Bangkok by Montien Boonma -- Luc Tuymans on The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele by Jan Van Eyck -- Bill Viola on The Annunciation by Dieric Bouts -- Edmund de Waal on The interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam -- Gillian Wearing on Self-portrait at the age of 63 by Rembrandt --.

Author : Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520385559

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The Unforgettables by Charles C. Eldredge Pdf

"In the past, histories of American art have traditionally highlighted the work of a familiar roster of artists, often white and male. Over time the achievements of others worthy of attention, including numerous women and artists of color, as well as white men, have gone uncelebrated and fallen into obscurity. In this collection of essays, sixty-three scholars from various institutions, specialties, and locales respond to the challenge to nominate one maker deserving remembrance and detail the reasons for their choice. The collection is headed by a preface from editor Charles C. Eldredge, explaining the genesis of the anthology, and an introduction by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, promoting the value of recovered reputations and oeuvres in the training of future art experts and audiences"--

Author : Stephanie Barron,Sheri Bernstein,Ilene Susan Fort
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520227670

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Reading California by Stephanie Barron,Sheri Bernstein,Ilene Susan Fort Pdf

This collection of essays written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars looks closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. Illustrations.

Author : Nira Tessler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443886239

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Flowers and Towers by Nira Tessler Pdf

This book explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It begins with a discussion of the symbolic significance of the flower in canonical texts such as the Song of Songs, in which the female lover is likened to a “lily among the thorns,” and to an “enclosed garden.” These allegorical images permeated into Christian iconography, attaining various expressions in the plastic arts from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries. The heart of the book is a discussion of the meaning of the change in representations of the flower, and at the same time the appearance of amazing images of “masculine” skyscrapers, in the works of avant-garde American women artists during the 1920s and 30s, in three hubs of Modernist art: New York, California, and Mexico. Tessler explains how modernist artists of various fields of art – such as Glaspell, Stettheimer, O’Keeffe, Pelton, Cunningham, Mather, Modotti and Kahlo – were aware of the religious symbolism of the flower in Judaism and Christianity, and turned it into an emblem of the new modern woman with her own views of the world. Flowers and Towers concludes by presenting the works of contemporary feminist American artists such as Chicago and Schapiro, who pay tribute to those same Modernist artists by creating a new and daring image of the flower and using “feminine” materials and techniques that link them, as it were, to their spiritual mothers.

Author : Agnes Pelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:78125958

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Agnes Pelton by Agnes Pelton Pdf