Agnes Martin

Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin’s paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. Martin attributed her grid-based works to metaphysical motivations, lending a serene complexity to her oeuvre that has defied any easy categorization. Perhaps for this reason, critical and scholarly analysis of her paintings has been scarce — until now. This important new anthology brings together the most current scholarship on Martin’s paintings by twelve multidisciplinary essayists who consider various aspects of the artist’s four-decade career.

Organized by Dia Art Foundation, whose extensive holdings of Martin’s paintings and ambitions to support in-depth research on the works are unparalleled, the publication brings renewed focus and energy to Martin’s career and her contributions to the art historical narrative.

• Author
• Lynne Cooke, Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, Karen Kelly, Kathryn A. Tuma, Jonathan D. Katz, Michael Newman

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 268

• Publisher
• Yale University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780300151053

• Genres
• art

• Release date
• 2012