Agnes Martin

by Barbara Haskell, Anna C. Chave, Rosalind Krauss

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. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting.

Genres: Art

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Jess Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had a casual interest in Agnes Martin for a while and am finally getting around to some serious reading about her. This exhibition catalogue is chock full of color and non-color plates and contains a significant chunk of the artist's own writings. The first two essays by Barbara Haskell and Anna Chave are lovely, eloquent illuminations of Martin's life and work, however Rosalind Krauss's essay is a very dense theoretical piece that did little to enhance my understanding or appreciation of the artist.