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Thames & Hudson Ltd Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
Over 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. 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.
£18.00
BAI NV In the Deep Present: Craigie Horsfield
The book In the Deep Present by Craigie Horsfield contains the series of portraits made for Utrecht and Lugano on the occasion of the exhibition organised there in 2016 and 2017. More than 160 pieces are represented, along with various as-yet-unpublished illustrations of Horsfield's most recent work. Explanatory texts about the work of Craigie Horsfield by Bruno Fornari and Nancy Princenthal feature, as do the texts In the Deep Present by the artist himself. Text in English and Italian.
£80.96