Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, by Nancy Princenthal
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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, by Nancy Princenthal
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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. No substantial critical monograph exists on this acclaimed artist―the recipient of two career retrospectives as well as the National Medal of the Arts―who was championed by critics as diverse in their approaches as Lucy Lippard, Lawrence Alloway, and Rosalind Krauss. Furthermore, no attempt has been made to describe her extraordinary life. The whole engrossing story, told here for the first time, Agnes Martin is essential reading for anyone interested in abstract art or the history of women artists in America. 38 illustrations, 33 in color
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- Brand: Princenthal, Nancy
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.80" h x 1.40" w x 6.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Off The Grid By disco75 This rather poetically written biography brings some research to the myths and mysteries that have swirled around Martin for decades. Her story is odd and interesting, a study of persistence in the face or substantial illness and often poverty. The task of writing the story was a challenging one. Records are sparse and Martin not only demanded discretion from friends and associates, she contradicted her own statements over the years. She erased her history whenever she felt moved to restart, destroying wide swaths of her works at several points.The book is articulately composed. It is formatted in creative, rather than strictly chronological, ways. There are chapters on Martin’s exhibitions, her working process, her neighborhood in 60s southern Manhattan, the nature of her chronic psychosis, etc. These topical groupings are a refreshing change of pace from the usual grandparents-to-tomb bios.Princenthal offers interesting ways of viewing the art works. She avoids the biographer’s pitfall of leaning heavily on accolades, instead surveying the art reviews and critics’ opinions from all angles with an understanding that painters struggle and flail as much as they create successful compositions. There are about three dozen color reproductions to illustrate the reviews.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. A Close Look at Agnes Martin By David L. Witt During her lifetime I wondered if Agnes Martin might be thought of as America’s least known major artist. Her work is not immediately understandable to those unfamiliar with modern art, but also she lived her life as a non-celebrity celebrity, not outwardly seeking publicity for herself. Even in her long-time of home of Taos, New Mexico (where I was curator of the art museum) there were many who did not know about her. Many also did not know about her huge financial donations to that museum, to the local swimming pool, etc.Agnes (she was famous enough in the art world, that she was generally referred to by first name only) had a strong presence about her, that is, you had to pay attention to her quiet, probably not explainable, but undeniable charisma. Nancy Princenthal has captured the essence of Agnes and her art as well as anyone is likely to do. Agnes lived into her nineties, passing away some years ago. From the historian’s view, this means that many who knew her best have also passed including most of the “Taos Moderns,” an informal collection of modernist painters who were her contemporaries in New Mexico. First hand accounts of this reclusive artist will be more difficult for subsequent biographers to come by.Agnes was notoriously non-communicative about her past, where she was when, her mysterious disappearances, the details that most of us will tell about our own lives. Princenthal shows that however much Agnes’ biography is interesting to her admirers, to the artist herself, it did not matter at all. Having myself asked Agnes about her past—and learning very little—Princenthal’s exhaustive research is all the more remarkable.This art history book includes formal analysis of the artist’s work which falls somewhere between Abstract Expressionism (Agnes’ self-identification as an artist) and Minimalism (the judgment of many critics). I agree with the former because I believe the hand of the artist is so evident in her work. Princenthal gives the arguments on both sides for what could be seen to the non-specialist as an arcane argument, but it is important to understanding the work.This well told story of Agnes Martin, artist (Agnes insisted she was not a “woman artist”), combined with the power that her painting, drawing and writing about art holds for many art lovers, should put her more firmly into the pantheon of important American (and Canadian) artists. But if you want to really know the art on a deep level you must seek out the art itself in one of the many museums that now show her. As with this book (which is not a quick read), and as with Agnes herself, there is no fast way into her paintings. Give that painting the time it deserves, a minute, several minutes, don’t look for anything in it, just look, don’t think. You may find more going on than you would get with just a glance.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. I have always liked Martin's paintings-but I never knew much about her By Karla I have always liked Martin's paintings-but I never knew much about her. She was clearly a very private and odd woman. Now I know why-she was a paranoid schizophrenic, in treatment most of her life. Even with this illness, she lived and participated in the world, teaching, painting and socializing with her peers like Ad Reinhardt and Philip Guston. She was in the world and yet not in the world. And that is reflected in her work-which perhaps accounts for its careful, sensitive and detached manner. Unfortunately this biography, perhaps due to Martin's own secretive nature, doesn't bring her to life. She remains an enigma which I believe is what Martin probably wanted. So I give this biography an "okay" but not more.
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