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emier issue of Dense! In 148 full-color pages, each issue clusters essays, interviews, visual stories, fictional accounts and tasty inserts around an event that pushes and pulls our readers in surprising directions.

Our first issue begins with the opening of the New Jersey Turnpike in November 1951. Seventy years later, we ask our contributors to unpack its complicated role in shaping the densest state in the U.S.

Our debut issue features these incredible contributors:

Anita Bakshi (author, educator & scholar) / Marshall Brown (artist & architect) / Nelson Chan (photographer) / Felecia Davis (architect, engineer & educator) / Ayanna Dozier (artist, filmmaker, curator & scholar) / Dalal Elsheikh (user experience designer, researcher & futurist) / Gabrielle Esperdy (historian, critic & educator) / Mindy Fullilove (author, social psychiatrist, & educator) / Daniel Hoffman (nutrition scientist & photographer) / Julie Langsam (multidisciplinary artist & photographer) / Joe Lanza (hunter) / David Maisel (photographer) / Chief Vincent Mann (Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan chief, educator & farmer) / Brian McGrath (author & urban design consultant) / Vaishnavi Reddy (architect) / SPURSE (research & design collective) / Shayna Strype (animator, actor & director) / University of Orange (free school of restoration urbanism) / Tommy Yang (designer, researcher & educator) / Susan Yelavich (author, critic, curator & educator) / Dana Yurcisin (photographer, filmmaker, songwriter & producer)

Details:

148 pages, offset-printed and perfect bound, full color on uncoated paper. Holographic foil illustration on cover. Carbon neutral printing.

Size:

7.5" x 9.5" x .75"

Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism

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.

This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and yet rarely documented culture that has mixed music, fashion and lifestyle since its inception.

With unprecedented access to the incredibly exciting music scene during this period, Beth Lesser’s photographs and text are a unique way into a previously hidden culture.

Dancehall is at the center of Jamaican musical and cultural life. From its roots in Kingston in the 1950s to its heyday in the 1980s, Dancehall has conquered the globe, spreading to the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Europe and beyond.

This jam-packed visual history tells the story from its roots to its heights from the vantage of the true, respected insider. In the early 1980s, as Jamaica was in the throes of political and gang violence, Beth Lesser ventured where few others dared, and this book is a never-before-seen record of the exciting, dangerous world of Dancehall.

12 in x 12 in

216 pages

Large high grade paper notebooks perfect for drawing sketches.  

Area: China

White Shirt: 11x8x.6 in

Blue Shirt: 17x11x.6 in

Material: Paper