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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

Nancy Princenthal

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#1421 of 3,809 books · #501 in Biography & Memoir

Won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2016).

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.

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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13
9780500772881
Topics
Abstract art and MinimalismWomen artists in AmericaMental illness and creativity

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