{"product_id":"9780500294550-agnes-martin","title":"Agnes Martin","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer Life and Art\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the PEN Award for Biography 2016, this is the only biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar period.\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin’s austere, serene  work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological  crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. ‘I paint with my  back to the world’, she claimed; when she died at ninety-two, in Taos, New Mexico,  it is said she had not read a newspaper in half a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Here, for the first time, is an account of Martin’s extraordinary life, and a long- awaited critical discussion of her work. Nancy Princenthal tells her story chronologically  – from Martin’s birth in Saskatchewan and her early days as an artist, living in derelict  Manhattan shipping lofts with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Ad Reinhardt and other  artists as neighbours; to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was  taking off, and the months she spent roaming the country in a pick-up truck; and  her last thirty years, in Taos some of that time, in an adobe house she built with her  own hands. Martin did not achieve recognition until she was in her late forties. Her  work – pencilled grids on square canvases, washed with pale or neutral colours – at last  receives the critical appraisal it deserves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449691943286,"sku":"9780500294550","price":19.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30146418.jpg?v=1760446471","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780500294550-agnes-martin","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}