Agnes Martin by Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin by Agnes Martin

The critically acclaimed, indispensible illustrated monograph on Agnes Martin, published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition organized by the Tate and on view in 2016 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Guggenheim

This groundbreaking survey provides an in-depth account of Martin's artistic career, from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and gridded grey paintings and use of color in various formats, to a group of her final pieces that reintroduce bold forms. A selection of drawings and watercolors and Martin's own writing are also included.

Edited by the exhibitions's co-curators Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell, and with essays by leading scholars that give a context for Martin's work--her life, relationship with other artists, the influence of South-Asian philosophy--alongside focused shorter pieces on particular paintings, this beautifully designed volume is the definitive publication on her oeuvre. Frances Morris places Martin's work in the art historical context of the time; art historian Richard Tobin analyzes Martin's painting "The Islands"; conservator Rachel Barker offers the reader a close viewing of "Morning"; curator Lena Fritsch provides a visual biography by comparing photographic portraits of Martin from different periods; and art historian Jacquelynn Baas delves into the spiritual and philosophical beliefs so present in Martin's art, including Platonism, Christian mysticism, Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

Agnes Martin was born in Maklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912, and moved to the US in 1932, studying at universities in Oregon, California, New Mexico and New York. She painted still lifes and portraits until the early 1950s, when she developed an abstract biomorphic style influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Her first one-woman exhibition was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1958. Partly through close friendships with artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Ad Reinhardt, Martin began to experiment with symmetrical compositions of rectangles or circles within a square, then from around 1960-61 to work with grids of delicate horizontal and vertical lines. She left New York in 1967, shortly after the death of Reinhardt, and moved to New Mexico, where she lived until her death in 2004.

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) has exhibited widely throughout the world since the early 1950s. In 1965, Walter Hopps organized a solo exhibition of the artist's sculptures and drawings at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum) in California, where the artist completed a residency at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop the same year. Other solo presentations include those held at the San Francisco Museum of Art (1973); Fresno Art Museum, California (traveled to Oakland Museum of California; 2001-2002); de Young Museum, San Francisco (2006); Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas (2012); and Norton Simon Museum of Art, California (2014).

Tiffany Bell is an independent art curator and writer. She is currently working as the editor of the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonnü¾Ž–”¼ and has just completed the first volume, a digital publication, which includes Martin's paintings, constructions, and film (2017). She continues work on the second volume that will include Martin's unique works on paper. She was recently co-curator of the 2015-2017 traveling retrospective of Agnes Martin's art that visited the Tate Modern in London, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dü¾˜¶˜¼sseldorf, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Previously, she was the director of the Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonnü¾Ž–”¼ project, which resulted in the publication of Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996 (2004), and served as curator for several museum and gallery exhibitions of Flavin's lights, including Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions held at David Zwirner in 2009. Bell has taught in the art department at Pratt Institute and has worked for many years as a freelance curator and art critic with articles appearing in Art in America, Arts Magazine, and Artforum, among other publications.

Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and curator. He was formerly the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, and Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where in 1996 he co-organized From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson, amongst numerous exhibitions. In 2002, he was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad. From 2005 to 2007, he was Director of Visual Art for the Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. The exhibition he organized at David Zwirner in the fall of 2013 to celebrate the centenary of Ad Reinhardt was voted Best Show in a Commercial Space in New York by the U.S. Art Critics Association.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781938922763
ISBN 10	193892276X
Title	Agnes Martin
Author	Tiffany Bell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Distributed Art Publishers
Year published	2015-07-28
Number of pages	272
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