Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (Peabody Essex Museum, 2007)
A religious inclination - attended in 1920s at an East Village church a series of experimental services that drew on Hinduism, Buddhism and Baha'i; involved with Christian Scientist church.
'His use of the words "transfiguration", "religious", and "transcendency" suggests that he made an early distinction between aestheticism and spirituality and also considered spirituality on a par with experience as a significant resource for art and the perception of beauty."
Began with collages then moved into the 3-dimensional with his boxes - shadow boxes, lidded, with opening doors, compartmentalised. Hiding and revealing.
Juxtaposed images from different sources - old books, prints, daguerrotypes, magazines - and objects found and made.
Images drawn from worlds of science, astronomy, home movies, puppetry, ballet, birds, old shops. . .
A love of spectacle - ' a sense of people engaged in wondrous performances'
Invoking strange worlds. Surrealist humour. Poetic, lyrical.
Les abeilles ont attaque le bleu celeste pale, 1940
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