Drawing the Line : The Early Work of Agnes Martin / Christina B Rosenberger; ed. by Christina Bryan Rosenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberger, Christina B, Author.

Contributor:

Bryan Rosenberger, Christina, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 75 color photographs, 25 b/w i

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 IF I COULD MAKE A LIVING PAINTING

2 TOWARD A MATURE EXPRESSION

3 THE PROGRESSION OF A PAINTERS WORK

4 FINDING THE GRID The Lines Began as Points in Space

CONCLUSION

NOTES

WORKS CITED

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35612-8

OCLC:

1408681552