Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art Details
About the Author Nancy Princenthal is a New York–based writer. A former senior editor of Art in America, where she remains a contributing editor, she has also written for the New York Times, Parkett, the Village Voice, and many other publications. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA art writing program at the School of Visual Arts. Her previous book, Agnes Martin, won 2016 PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography. Read more
Reviews
This is an excellent introduction to the life, practice, and times of Agnes Martin written by someone who clearly cherishes her subject.As the author points out it is curtailed by Agnes' requested silence on the part of many of her friends and colleagues, but Princenthal fleshes things out nicely from Agnes' talks, writings, and others' written record. A distraction (for me) are lengthily descriptions of work where an illustration would easily do.
