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Book cover featuring a blue grid painting. The text reads: "Agnes Martin."
Book cover featuring a blue grid painting. The text reads: "Agnes Martin."
Terracotta art work depicting a grid.
Blue and white stripes on paper.
A blue artwork depicting a grid.
A drawing of a grid with fine lines on paper.

Agnes Martin

$55.00

by Frances Morris (Editor, Contributor), Tiffany Bell (Editor, Contributor), Agnes Martin (Artist), Briony Fer (Contributor), Maria Müller-Schareck (Contributor), Jacquelynn Baas  (Contributor), Lena Fritsch (Contributor), Anna Lovatt  (Contributor), Marion Ackermann (Contributor), Rachel Barker (Contributor), Christina Bryan Rosenberger (Contributor), Richard Tobin (Contributor), Rosemarie Trockel (Contributor)

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.

Hardcover, 272 pages.