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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)»rank: 290724by: Agnes Martin, Drew Daniel, Deyan Sudjic, Gia Kourlas, Mark Taylor, Robert Irwin, Douglas Wheeler, Carl Andre, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
: :Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, Singular Forms begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic White Painting (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary art: the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the attention to issues of perception. After a prologue including other examples of radical, monochrome paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt, Singular Forms explores how these parallel artistic strategies were manifest in Minimalist and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s ... |
Drawing From The Modern»rank: 266124by: Agnes Martin, Gary Garrels, Carl Andre, Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Dan Flavin
: :Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of well-known artists--and for discovering others. Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists. Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975, surveys the drawing of the period through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The postwar period saw the development of ... |
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Bowling»rank: 602496by: Charlene Agne-Traub, Joan Martin, Ruth Tandy
: :A straightforward, value-priced book that covers the history, skills, rules, professional organizations and competitions, and the equipment used in bowling. The content is designed to teach the fundamentals to beginning bowling students of any age and enhance the skills of experienced bowlers. |
Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond»rank: 494157by: Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Ned Rifkin
: :Agnes Martin has spent every morning for the past 40 years working in her New Mexico studio, producing square abstract paintings that consist of graphite horizontal lines across fields of white, gray, or pale colors. Though her work superficially belongs to the history of Minimalism, Martin considers her paintings the abstract expression of positive inner states of existence. Published on the occasion of her 90th birthday, this catalogue presents the iconic serenity and elegant geometry of her canvasses from the past decade, in a format complimentary to Martin's own immutable aesthetic. |
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Vortex Of Silence»rank: 280299by: Agnes Martin, Doris von Drathen, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Giuseppe Penone, Vincent van Gogh
: :German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen has here produced a collection of 24 texts on 24 of the world's famous contemporary artists. In it, she proposes nothing less than a new method of art criticism: an anti-criticism that goes above and beyond aesthetic categories, and against the colonization of art. Paradoxically, the more famous an artist, the more their works seem obscured by inflexible classifications, wild misreading, and deceptive labels; von Drathen's analysis instead shows that every one of these artists is driven by an existential and ethical research. Artists from whom von Drathen raises this vortex of silence include: Marina Abramovic, Jean-Pierre Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ann ... |
Agnes Martin: Writings»rank: 827668by: Agnes Martin
: :Now in its third printing, this collection of letters, journals, and lectures is the standard collection of writings by the artist. 'I suggest that people who like to be alone, who walk alone, will perhaps be serious workers in the art field.'--Agnes Martin. |
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Agnes Martin: The Islands»rank: 269244by: Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock
: :The Islands--a 1979 group of 12 identically large square paintings--is a body of work especially suitable for gaining insight into the modalities of the visual in Agnes Martin's work. An element that is common to all the canvases is the matte white color that absorbs the surrounding light but only partially radiates it back, as well as the structure of fine horizontal lines drawn in pencil. The reproductions of Martin's work in this book are of the highest quality, especially in light of the fact that her pictures are generally not ideal for reproduction, as, according to the artist, they are light and luminous and deal with fusion and formlessness, i.e., the ... |
Agnes Martin Painting 1974-1990»rank: 550820by: Agnes Martin
: :The Islands--a 1979 group of 12 identically large square paintings--is a body of work especially suitable for gaining insight into the modalities of the visual in Agnes Martin's work. An element that is common to all the canvases is the matte white color that absorbs the surrounding light but only partially radiates it back, as well as the structure of fine horizontal lines drawn in pencil. The reproductions of Martin's work in this book are of the highest quality, especially in light of the fact that her pictures are generally not ideal for reproduction, as, according to the artist, they are light and luminous and deal with fusion and formlessness, i.e., the ... |
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The Book of Art for Young People»rank: 439555by: Agnes Ethel Conway, Sir William Martin Conway
: :Early twentieth century husband and wife collaboration concerning Fine Art, aimed at children. Full of famous paintings. |
Agnes Martin»rank: 439555by: Agnes Martin
: :Early twentieth century husband and wife collaboration concerning Fine Art, aimed at children. Full of famous paintings. |