Agnes Martin / edited by Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell, with contributions by Marion Ackermann, Rachel Barker, Jacquelynn Baas, Christina Bryan Rosenberger, Briony Fer, Lena Fritsch, Anna Lovatt, Maria Müller-Schareck, Richard Tobin, Rosemarie Trockel.

Additional Author: Morris, Frances, editor.

Description:271 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Note:Issued in connection with an exhibition held June 3-Oct. 11, Tate Modern, London; Nov. 7, 2015-Mar. 6, 2016, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Apr. 24-Sept. 11, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and Oct. 7-Jan. 11, 2017, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-256) and index.

Note:Directors' foreword and acknowledgments -- Introduction / Tiffany Bell and Frances Morris -- Happiness is the goal / Tiffany Bell -- Agnes Martin: innocence and experience / Frances Morris -- Islands no. 4, c.1961 / Christina Bryan Rosenberger -- The islands, 1961 / Richard Tobin -- Morning, 1965 / Rachel Barker -- In pursuit of the neutral: Agnes Martin's shimmering line / Anna Lovatt -- On a clear day / Agnes Martin -- Beauty is the mystery of life / Agnes Martin -- Dolphin days / Rosemarie Trockel -- Untitled #5, 1998 / Marion Ackermann -- Who's afraid of triangles? / Briony Fer -- 'Out into the world': how Agnes Martin's paintings reached Germany and Western Europe / Maria Müller-Schareck -- 'Well, I sit here and wait to be inspired': photographs of Agnes Martin / Lena Fritsch -- Agnes Martin: readings for writings / Jacquelynn Baas -- Chronology / Lena Fritsch -- Notes ; Selected bibliography ; List of works ; Credits ; Index -- The untroubled mind / Agnes Martin.

Note:Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the 20th century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Martin was of the few woman artists who came to prominence in the predominately masculine art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, and became a particularly important role model for younger women and artists. This survey provides and overview of Martin's career, from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and grided grey paintings and use of colour in various formats, to a group of her final works that reintroduce bold forms. A selection of drawings and watercolours is also included.

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