Agnes Bernice Martin<\/a> (1912 \u2013 2004) was a Canadian-born American abstract expressionist painter. A pioneer of her time, Agnes Martin never publicly expressed her sexuality, but has been described as a closeted homosexual but her works was included in the landmark exhibition Hide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture <\/em>at the National Portrait Gallery, USA (2010) and now the new 2018 biography, Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon,<\/em> uncovers several romantic relationships between Martin and other women, including the dealer Betty Parsons. Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Painter, Icon <\/em> Agnes Martin: Night Sea<\/em> (Afterall Books \/ One Work) Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin<\/em> Agnes Martin and Me<\/em> Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art A number of new art books and biographies about Agnes Martin has been published in 2015 – 2018. The latest book promises to reveal some of the artists significant lesbian relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[415],"class_list":["post-18834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-book","tag-agnes-martin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nSince her first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons gallery Agnes Martin’s works has been the subject of more than 85 solo shows and two retrospectives. Posthumous her works has also been extensively exhibited including\u00a0 the recent retrospective travelling exhibition Agnes Martin<\/a><\/em>, of her works from the 1950’s through 2004 (organized and exhibited by Tate Modern, London in 2015), which travelled to Germany and the US (LACMA and the Guggenheim) in 2016.<\/p>\n
\nBiography by Henry Martin
\nPaperback: 352 pages
\nPublisher: Schaffner Press, Inc. (March 14, 2018)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 1943156301
\nISBN-13: 978-1943156306
\nAbout the Book: in this intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin readers will learn of Agnes Martin’s bouts with mental illness, her several significant lesbian relationships, and her lifelong yearning for recognition despite her reclusive lifestyle and need for privacy.<\/p>\n
\nby Suzanne P. Hudson
\nPaperback: 96 pages
\nPublisher: Afterall Books (January 13, 2017)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 1846381711
\nISBN-13: 978-1846381713<\/p>\n
\nby Christina Bryan Rosenberger
\nHardcover: 256 pages
\nPublisher: University of California Press; First edition (July 19, 2016)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 9780520288249
\nISBN-13: 978-0520288249
\nAmazon on the Book: ‘beginning with Agnes Martin\u2019s initiation into artistic language at the University of New Mexico and concluding with the reception of her grid paintings in New York in the early 1960s, Rosenberger offers vivid descriptions of the networks of art, artists, and information that moved between New Mexico and the creative centers of New York and California in the postwar period’ [which Agnes Martin was a part of].<\/p>\n
\nby Donald Woodman
\nForeword by Jonathan D. Katz
\nPaperback: 156 pages
\nPublisher: Lyon Artbooks (January 31, 2016)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 0996784306
\nISBN-13: 978-0996784306
\nAbout the Book: ‘Seven years as assistant, friend, and sometime adversary of the celebrated painter Agnes Martin are engagingly recalled in this illustrated memoir by photographer Donald Woodman’.<\/p>\n
\nby Nancy Princenthal
\nHardcover: 320 pages
\nPublisher: Thames & Hudson; 1 edition (June 16, 2015)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 0500093903
\nISBN-13: 978-0500093900
\nAmazon on the Book: ‘the first biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar period’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"