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The Resource Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group, Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell

Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group, Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell

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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
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eng
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239 pages
Contents
  • A more beautiful world : occult imagery in the spiritual paintings of the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Catherine Whitney
  • Women in the desert : Agnes Pelton and Florence Miller
  • Ilene Susan Fort
  • The Transcendental Movement in painting : excerpts from the 1938 manuscript
  • Dane Rudhyar
  • Another world: the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Michael Duncan
  • The Transcendental Painting Group and significant abstraction
  • Scott A. Shields
  • Artist biographies
  • Michael Duncan
  • Why New Mexico? : a tale of three cities
  • MaLin Wilson-Powell
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9781942884873
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Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group
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Another world
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the Transcendental Painting Group
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Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell
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Transcendental Painting Group
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eng
Summary
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
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1953-
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Duncan, Michael
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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  • bibliography
  • catalogs
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1895-1985
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  • Shields, Scott A.
  • Fort, Ilene Susan
  • Rudhyar, Dane
  • Whitney, Catherine L.
  • Wilson-Powell, MaLin
  • Albuquerque Museum
  • Philbrook Museum of Art
  • Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art
  • Crocker Art Museum
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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  • Transcendental Painting Group (N.M.)
  • Transcendental Painting Group (N.M.)
  • Painting, Abstract
  • Spirituality in art
  • Theosophy
  • Peinture abstraite
  • Spiritualité dans l'art
  • Théosophie
  • Theosophy
  • Spirituality in art
  • Painting, Abstract
  • New Mexico
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Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group, Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
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  • still image
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  • sti
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  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • A more beautiful world : occult imagery in the spiritual paintings of the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Catherine Whitney
  • Women in the desert : Agnes Pelton and Florence Miller
  • Ilene Susan Fort
  • The Transcendental Movement in painting : excerpts from the 1938 manuscript
  • Dane Rudhyar
  • Another world: the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Michael Duncan
  • The Transcendental Painting Group and significant abstraction
  • Scott A. Shields
  • Artist biographies
  • Michael Duncan
  • Why New Mexico? : a tale of three cities
  • MaLin Wilson-Powell
Control code
1242933398
Dimensions
30 cm
Extent
239 pages
Isbn
9781942884873
Lccn
2021931225
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
Other physical details
color illustrations
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(OCoLC)1242933398
Label
Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group, Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • A more beautiful world : occult imagery in the spiritual paintings of the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Catherine Whitney
  • Women in the desert : Agnes Pelton and Florence Miller
  • Ilene Susan Fort
  • The Transcendental Movement in painting : excerpts from the 1938 manuscript
  • Dane Rudhyar
  • Another world: the Transcendental Painting Group
  • Michael Duncan
  • The Transcendental Painting Group and significant abstraction
  • Scott A. Shields
  • Artist biographies
  • Michael Duncan
  • Why New Mexico? : a tale of three cities
  • MaLin Wilson-Powell
Control code
1242933398
Dimensions
30 cm
Extent
239 pages
Isbn
9781942884873
Lccn
2021931225
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
Other physical details
color illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1242933398

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