Name/Title
Drawing the line : the early work of Agnes MartinEntry/Object ID
N9500.M37.R6Description
"Agnes Martin's (1912-2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American art and have influenced many contemporary artists. Martin's formative years, however, have been largely overlooked. In this revelatory study of Martin's early artistic production, Christina Bryan Rosenberger demonstrates that the rapidly evolving creative processes and pictorial solutions Martin developed between 1940 and 1967 define all her subsequent art. Beginning with Martin's initiation into artistic language at the University of New Mexico and concluding with the reception of her grid paintings in New York in the early 1960s, Rosenberger offers vivid descriptions of the networks of art, artists, and information that moved between New Mexico and the creative centers of New York and California in the postwar period. She also documents Martin's exchanges with artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, among others. Rosenberger uses original analysis of Martin's art, as well as a rich array of archival materials, to situate Martin's art within the context of a dynamic historical moment. With a lively, innovative approach informed by art history and conservation, this fluidly written book makes a substantial contribution to the history of postwar American art." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
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artist monographs, painters--united states, painting--exhibitionsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Christina Bryan RosenbergerPublisher
University of CaliforniaPlace Published
City
OaklandState/Province
CaliforniaCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaDate Published
2016Call No.
N9500.M37.R6ISBN
520288246, 9780520288249LCCN
2015039773Notes
Length: 256General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
"If I could make a living painting" -- Toward a mature expression -- The progression of a painter's work -- Finding the grid: "the lines began as points in space."