fb pixcode
ARTBOOK LOGO

20TH CENTURY MOVEMENTS

PUBLISHER
FULGUR PRESS

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color / 13 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 30   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781527228818 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $75.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

TERRITORY
NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR

THE SPRING 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our SPRING 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

FULGUR PRESS

Enchanted Modernities

Theosophy, the Arts and the American West

Edited with text by Christopher V. Scheer, Sarah Victoria Turner, James G. Mansell. Text by Helena Capkova, Deniz Ertan, Anna Gawboy, Katie J.T. Herrington, Paul Ivey, Katie Lee-Koven, Rachel Middleman, Christine Ödlund, Marco Pasi, Gauri Viswanathan, David Wall.

Enchanted Modernities

When the occult came to the American West: individualism and magic in the art of California, from Agnes Pelton to Jess

“It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced.” With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, occultist philosopher Helena Blavatsky drew a direct connection between the Theosophical Society and the dynamic energy of 19th-century Americanism.

Blavatsky and her successors identified the American West as the perfect site for a rebirth and re-enchantment of humanity, drawing those seeking spiritual fulfilment outside of organized religion to the dramatic landscapes of California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico—places which have long beckoned searchers of all kinds. The syncretic nature of Theosophy allowed for and even encouraged individualism in belief, making Theosophy a good fit for the notions of freedom and personal agency that characterized the American West in the popular imaginary.

Among those drawn to the American West seeking spiritual answers in the early 20th century were artists. In 2014, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum at Utah State University staged the first exhibition to explore artistic responses to this confluence of enchanted thought and the American West. Building on this precedent, Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West is the first publication devoted to studying these relationships in art and music.

Through a series of color plates, contextual essays, interviews and interpretations of individual works by artists such as the Dynaton group (Wolfgang Paalen, Gordon Onslow Ford, Lee Mullican), Oskar Fischinger, Emil Bisttram, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, Agnes Pelton, Wolfgang Paalen, Beatrice Wood, Dane Rudhyar and Jess, Enchanted Modernities explores the role of Theosophical thought in redefining the relationship between enchantment and modernism, and fostering lively cultural networks in a region that that has long captured the world’s imagination.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Enchanted Modernities.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Frieze

Figgy Guyver

[Enchanted Modernities] charts Theosophy’s influence on Western modernism.

Enchanted Modernities

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

OF RELATED INTEREST

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group

ANOTHER WORLD: THE TRANSCENDENTAL PAINTING GROUP

DelMonico Books/Crocker Art Museum

ISBN: 9781942884873
USD $65.00
| CAD $95 UK £ 52

Pub Date: 7/6/2021
Active | Out of stock


Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture

VISIONS OF ENCHANTMENT: OCCULTISM, MAGIC AND VISUAL CULTURE

Fulgur Press

ISBN: 9781527228825
USD $65.00
| CAD $90

Pub Date: 7/23/2019
Active | Out of stock


FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ART

How Evil Is Pop Art?

HOW EVIL IS POP ART?

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867493418
USD $33.00
| CAD $45

Pub Date: 2/19/2019
Active | Out of stock


Access Kafka

ACCESS KAFKA

Kerber

ISBN: 9783735610140
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Splendor and Misery

SPLENDOR AND MISERY

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753306605
USD $60.00
| CAD $90

Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Active | Out of stock


Post-Impressionism: Beyond Appearances

POST-IMPRESSIONISM: BEYOND APPEARANCES

SKIRA PARIS

ISBN: 9782370742568
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 2/4/2025
Active | In stock


Manzar: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today

MANZAR: ART AND ARCHITECTURE FROM PAKISTAN 1940S TO TODAY

Silvana Editoriale

ISBN: 9788836659623
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


3D-Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art

3D-DOINGS: THE IMAGIST OBJECT IN CHICAGO ART

DelMonico Books

ISBN: 9781636811659
USD $65.00
| CAD $95 UK £ 55

Pub Date: 4/15/2025
Forthcoming


Northern Lights

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775759151
USD $75.00
| CAD $110

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Italian Futurism, 1909–1944

ITALIAN FUTURISM, 1909–1944

Guggenheim Museum

ISBN: 9780892075126
USD $55.00
| CAD $82 UK £ 47

Pub Date: 1/1/2014
Active | In stock


Surrealism through Its Journals 1924–2024

SURREALISM THROUGH ITS JOURNALS 1924–2024

SKIRA

ISBN: 9788857252940
USD $40.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 3/25/2025
Forthcoming


Donation Glicksman

DONATION GLICKSMAN

MAMCO Geneva

ISBN: 9782940656127
USD $29.95
| CAD $44.95 UK £ 24.99

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Casablanca Art School

CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959058483
USD $40.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968

ORDINARY PEOPLE: PHOTOREALISM AND THE WORK OF ART SINCE 1968

DelMonico Books/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

ISBN: 9781636811000
USD $69.95
| CAD $99.95 UK £ 59.99

Pub Date: 11/5/2024
Active | In stock