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Title: Agnes Pelton
Condition: New
Subtitle: Desert Transcendentalist
Author: Gilbert Vicario
Contributor: Gilbert Vicario (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9783777439747
ISBN: 9783777439747
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 04/28/2022
Description: 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.”
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 290mm
Item Length: 250mm
Item Weight: 1500g
Release Year: 2022

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