Barbara Haskell

Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting.… (more)

This bk is much more inclusive than Grapefruit was insofar as it has fotos & a pretty good overview of all Ono's work including the feminist albums, the films, etc.. It came out 20 yrs later than Grapefruit & I read it even later than that so it didn't have the impact for me that Grapefruit did, but, still, the work is very fertile & diverse & thoughtful & I like her politics. Fluxus included so many interesting women & neoism (the movement I'm associated w/ that's called by some a successor to Fluxus) has so few. I wonder why that is? Anyway, this is a great history & it reminds me that I'd like to see her films. Sadly?, I bet that if I were to finally see them I'd think they're boring. No matter.… (more)