Agnes Martin HC - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Frances Morris is a curator, writer, broadcaster and Director Emerita, Tate Modern. She was previously Director of Tate Modern until February 2023.

Tiffany Bell is an art historian and editor of the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné. Her work centres on the meticulous documentation and analysis of significant artistic legacies, particularly those of pivotal post-war American artists.

Briony Fer is Professor of History of Art at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Dr Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum and teaches at the University of Oxford. She was previously at Tate Modern and co-curated their major Giacometti retrospective in 2017.

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Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth 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 artists. This groundbreaking survey provides an 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. With essays by leading scholars that give a context for Martin's work alongside focused shorter pieces on particular paintings. Presenting new research, and beautifully designed, the book is also an opportunity to introduce the life and work of Agnes Martin to those unfamiliar with her oeuvre.