Description
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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Gilbert Vicario
Published: 08/05/2022
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9783777439747
Pages: 220
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 0.94″ H x 11.65″ L x 10.08″ W
About the Author
Gilbert Vicario is the Selig Family Chief Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum. His past books include Ragnar Kjartansson: Scandinavian Pain and Other Myths and Hot Mess Formalism.
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