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• Title:Agnes Martin : paintings, writings, remembrances / [compiled and edited] by Arne Glimcher.
  
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• Variant Title:Paintings, writings, remembrances
  
• Author/Creator:Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004, artist.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Glimcher, Arnold B., compiler, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6537.M38 A4 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004.
  Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004--Catalogs.
  Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004--Manuscripts.
  Painters--United States--20th century--Biography.
  Abstract expressionism--United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Catalogs.
  
• Description:281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
  
• Summary:Agnes Martin's career spanned over seven decades. Though a major influence on Minimalist painters, Martin saw her own work, more closely related to Abstract Expressionism, her paintings being 'meditations on innocence, beauty, happiness and love.' More than 150 of Martin's paintings present the full extent of her artistic career, and her own words explain how they were inspired by ideas on love, joy, beauty, humility, solitude, perfection, 'freedom from the cares of this world', destiny and the nature of existence. Martin's writings are fascinatingly direct in explaining her philosophies on art and on the themes of life that inspire her paintings and drawings, and facsimilies presenting her words in her own handwriting intimately convey her thoughts. The artist's works and writings are here introduced by art dealer and film director, Arne Glimcher, who represented the artist for most of her career and was a good friend. He opens the book with reminiscences of working with Martin and how her art developed during her life, and later in the book are notes on visits he made to Martin's studio and home in New Mexico. With beautifully accurate reproductions of Martin's works, and foldouts to show her series as groups, as well as the comprehensive presentation of works and writings, this luxurious book is unprecedented: a uniquely full and intimate celebration of the artist.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780714859965
  0714859966
  
• Contents:About Agnes
  About the paintings
  Works 1956-67. I want to talk to you about the work
  ; Short essays ; The silence on the floor of my house
  ; The struggle of existence
  ; What we do not see if we do not see
  ; The thinking reed ; We cannot even imagine how to be humble
  ; Agnes decides to stop painting
  Works 1971-89. On a clear day screenprints ; Comment about the prints ; Reflections ; Studio visit : October 8, 1974 ; Excerpt from Beginning no. 5 ; Studio visit : April 30, 1976 ; What is real? ; After completing Gabriel ; Studio visit : March 8, 1977 ; Studio visit : January 23, 1978 ; Studio visit : March 5, 1979 ; Letter to the Whitney Museum of American Art ; Advice to young artists ; This koon
  ; I hope I have made it clear that the work is about
  ; The dark paintings
  Works 1991-2004. Statement re. art work ; We perceive, we see
  ; The current of the river of life moves us ; When I think of art I think of beauty ; Response to art ; The adventurous state of mind ; In my best moments ; Agnes's last days
  Works on paper. Answer to an enquiry ; The untroubled mind ; Agnes's relevant biography ; List of works ; Biography and list of exhibitions ; Further reading.