Agnes Martin
eBook - ePub

Agnes Martin

Her Life and Art

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Agnes Martin

Her Life and Art

About this book

Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. 'I paint with my back to the world', she claimed; when she died at ninety-two, in Taos, New Mexico, it is said she had not read a newspaper in half a century.

Nancy Princenthal tells her whole story chronologically from Martin's birth in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, living in derelict Manhattan shipping lofts as neighbour to Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others of their ilk; to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was taking off; the months she spent roaming the country in a pick-up truck; and her last thirty years, in Taos, in an adobe house she built with her own hands. Nancy Princenthal has written the essential Agnes Martin biography; a must-read for anyone interested in abstract painting or the history of women artists in America.

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Information

Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Author
  4. Other titles of Interest
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Abstraction
  7. Chapter 1: Northwest Passages
  8. Chapter 2: Student / Teacher
  9. Chapter 3: Reaching Harbor
  10. Chapter 4: Lines of Thought
  11. Chapter 5: As Shown
  12. Chapter 6: Silence
  13. Chapter 7: Departures
  14. Chapter 8: Back to the World
  15. Chapter 9: Contours Redrawn
  16. Epilogue: Composure
  17. Endnotes
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Copyright