
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Other titles of Interest
- Contents
- Introduction: Abstraction
- Chapter 1: Northwest Passages
- Chapter 2: Student / Teacher
- Chapter 3: Reaching Harbor
- Chapter 4: Lines of Thought
- Chapter 5: As Shown
- Chapter 6: Silence
- Chapter 7: Departures
- Chapter 8: Back to the World
- Chapter 9: Contours Redrawn
- Epilogue: Composure
- Endnotes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright