Agnes Martin Her Life And Art

Author : Nancy Princenthal
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500772881

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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal Pdf

The first biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar period 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. Martin identified with the Abstract Expressionists but her commitment to linear geometry caused her to be associated in turn with Minimalist, feminist, and even outsider artists. She moved through some of the liveliest art communities of her time while maintaining a legendary reserve. “I paint with my back to the world,” she says both at the beginning and at the conclusion of a documentary filmed when she was in her late eighties. When she died at ninety-two, in Taos, New Mexico, it is said she had not read a newspaper in half a century. No substantial critical monograph exists on this acclaimed artist—the recipient of two career retrospectives as well as the National Medal of the Arts—who was championed by critics as diverse in their approaches as Lucy Lippard, Lawrence Alloway, and Rosalind Krauss. Furthermore, no attempt has been made to describe her extraordinary life. The whole engrossing story, told here for the first time, Agnes Martin is essential reading for anyone interested in abstract art or the history of women artists in America.

Author : Arne Glimcher
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 1838663096

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Agnes Martin by Arne Glimcher Pdf

The only complete career retrospective of this visionary painter - a classic, now available again in a handsome new binding. Agnes Martin's career spanned over seven decades. Though a major influence on Minimalist painters, Martin saw her own work more closely related to Abstract Expressionism, her paintings being meditations on innocence, beauty, happiness and love.' This much-anticipated reissue of Arne Glimcher's highly-acclaimed book presents 130 of Martin's paintings and drawings alongside her previously unpublished writings and lecture notes. Glimcher's illuminating introduction, his personal memories of visits to Martin at her studio, and their correspondence throughout her career, reveal many insights into the artist's life and work.

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : Schaffner Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1943156301

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Agnes Martin by Henry Martin Pdf

"This is an intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin, renowned American painter, considered one of the great women artists of the 20th and 21st Century. A resident of both New Mexico and New York City, Martin has always remained an enigma due to her fiercely guarded private life. Henry Martin, award-winning writer, and art scholar, having access to those who were close to Agnes Martin--friends, family, former lovers--has given (gives) us a full portrait of this universally revered artist. Readers will learn of her bouts with mental illness, her several significant lesbian relationships, and her lifelong yearning for recognition despite her reclusive lifestyle and need for privacy. Arriving in the wake of major international retrospective exhibitions of her work from London's Tate Modern, LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Guggenheim in New York City, this book provides a perspective of Agnes Martin that has not been seen in earlier, more academic works or fine-art monographs. Certain to be a mainstay for readers of the arts, and admirers of the creative spirit, this book also includes rare photographs from Martin's family and friends, many of which have never appeared in a book before"--

Author : Frances Morris,Tiffany Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Canadian
ISBN : 1849762686

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Agnes Martin by Frances Morris,Tiffany Bell Pdf

A groundbreaking survey of the work of Agnes Martin (1912-2004), one of the pre-eminent painters of the twentieth century - offering a rich overview of her subtle yet powerful art.

Author : Donald Woodman
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0996784306

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Agnes Martin and Me by Donald Woodman Pdf

Memoir of the relationship between the painter Agnes Martin and her assistant and friend Donald Woodman

Author : Eleanor Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 050009425X

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Barbara Hepworth by Eleanor Clayton Pdf

A richly illustrated biographyon the life and work ofBarbara Hepworth, one of thetwentieth century's mostinspiring artists and a pioneerof modernist sculpture.

Author : Agnes Martin
Publisher : Pace Gallery
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1948701391

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Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color by Agnes Martin Pdf

Exploring the evolution of Agnes Martin's sublime use of color This handsomely designed, concise volume celebrates Agnes Martin's pursuit of beauty, happiness and innocence in her nonobjective art created while living in the desert of New Mexico. From her multicolored striped works to compositions of color-washed bands defined by hand-drawn lines, to the deep gray Black Paintings that characterized her work in the late 1980s, Martin's treatment of color in each of these phases is examined. A particular emphasis is placed on the latter half of her career and the broadening vision that developed during her years working in the desert, which crystalized her quest to deepen her understanding of the essence of painting, unattached to emotion or subject, yet radiant and meditative in its pure abstraction. With editorial contributions by a selection of writers whose cross-genre works span art writing, essay and memoir, this book expands an approach to Martin's paintings beyond a purely art historical lens, bringing new voices into the conversations around her career, inviting a rediscovery of her enduring legacy. An essay by author Durga Chew-Bose provides a poetic exploration of color; the writer Olivia Laing (author of The Lonely City) discusses the nature of solitude in her text; and Bruce Hainley uses a 1974 essay by Jill Johnston as a jumping-off point to delve into Martin's life during her years in New Mexico.

Author : Barbara Haskell
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810968177

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Agnes Martin by Barbara Haskell Pdf

Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture.

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500770795

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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford Pdf

“An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.

Author : Christina Bryan Rosenberger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520288249

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Drawing the Line by Christina Bryan Rosenberger Pdf

Agnes MartinÕs (1912Ð2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American art and have influenced many contemporary artists. MartinÕs formative years, however, have been largely overlooked. In this revelatory study of MartinÕs early artistic production, Christina Bryan Rosenberger demonstrates that the rapidly evolving creative processes and pictorial solutions Martin developed between 1940 and 1967 define all her subsequent art. Beginning with MartinÕs initiation into artistic language at the University of New Mexico and concluding with the reception of her grid paintings in New York in the early 1960s, Rosenberger offers vivid descriptions of the networks of art, artists, and information that moved between New Mexico and the creative centers of New York and California in the postwar period. She also documents MartinÕs exchanges with artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Georgia OÕKeeffe, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko, among others. Rosenberger uses original analysis of MartinÕs art, as well as a rich array of archival materials, to situate MartinÕs art within the context of a dynamic historical moment. With a lively, innovative approach informed by art history and conservation, this fluidly written book makes a substantial contribution to the history of postwar American art.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). International Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Abstract expressionism
ISBN : UOM:39015006727971

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The New American Painting by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). International Program Pdf

Author : Dave Beech
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0262512386

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Beauty by Dave Beech Pdf

Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art.

Author : Agnes Martin,David Bellman,Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Publisher : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0888653123

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The Innocence of Trees : Agnes Martin and Emily Carr by Agnes Martin,David Bellman,Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Tessa McWatt
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773061412

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Where Are You, Agnes? by Tessa McWatt Pdf

This stunning picture-book imagining of artist Agnes Martin’s childhood gives readers a glimpse into the life and work of one of the most esteemed abstract painters of the twentieth century. Agnes Martin was born on the Canadian prairies in the early twentieth century. In this imagining of her childhood from acclaimed author Tessa McWatt, Agnes spends her days surrounded by wheat fields, where her grandfather encourages her to draw what she sees and feels around her: the straight horizon, the feeling of the sun, the movement of birds’ wings and the shapes she sees in the wheat. One day, Agnes’s family moves to a house in a big city. The straight horizon and wheat fields are gone, but Agnes continues to draw what she sees and feels around her. No one except her grandfather understands what she is trying to capture — not her mother, who asks, “Where are you, Agnes?” when she sees her daughter engrossed in her drawing; nor her siblings, who think her art is ugly. Still, Agnes keeps trying to capture what she sees inside her mind. Agnes Martin grew up to become a famous abstract expressionist artist. Tessa McWatt has written a beautiful story of Agnes’s childhood and how it might have shaped her adult work. Zuzanna Celej’s watercolors adeptly capture Agnes’s world, including hints of the grid paintings that she was later known for, against the backdrop of prairie and city landscapes. Includes an author’s note with more information about Agnes Martin’s life and the inspiration behind this story. Key Text Features author's note art history Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Author : Judy Chicago
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780500776889

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The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago by Judy Chicago Pdf

In this provocative and resonant autobiography, world-renowned artist and feminist icon Judy Chicago reflects on her extraordinary life and career. Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Dinner Party (now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum), the groundbreaking Birth Project, and the meticulously researched Holocaust Project. She designed the monumental installation for Dior’s 2020 Paris couture show and, in 2019, established the Judy Chicago Portal, which will help to accomplish her lifelong goal of overcoming the erasure that has eclipsed the achievements of so many women. The Flowering is her vivid and revealing autobiography, fully illustrated with photographs of her work, as well as never-before-published personal images and a foreword by Gloria Steinem. Chicago has revised and updated her earlier, classic works with previously untold stories, fresh insights, and an extensive afterword covering the last twenty years. This powerful narrative weaves together the stories behind some of Chicago’s most significant artworks and her journey as a woman artist with the chronicles of her personal relationships and her understanding, from decades of experience and extensive research, of how misogyny, racism, and other prejudices intersect to erase the legacies of artists who are not white and male while dismissing the suffering of millions of creatures who share the planet. With the first career retrospective of her work forthcoming at the de Young Museum in 2021, Chicago reinforces her message of resilience for a new generation of artists and activists. The Flowering is an essential read for anyone interested in making change.