{"product_id":"agnes-martin-and-me-9780996784306","title":"Agnes Martin and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven years as assistant  friend  and sometime adversary of the celebrated painter Agnes Martin are engagingly recalled in this illustrated memoir by photographer Donald Woodman Agnes Martin is currently the subject of a traveling retrospective organized by Tate Modern  which travels to Germany and the US (LACMA and the Guggenheim) in 2016. Woodmans story is an enjoyably readable  pull-no-punches account of a period when Martin was close to few people - providing a picture of \"missing\" years in this important painters life One of the outstanding artists of the 20th century  Agnes Martin created ethereal abstractions while living almost as a hermit in New Mexico and issuing Zen-like pronouncements about her art. Photographer Donald Woodman  who shared her property (which he owned) and her life for seven rollercoaster years  takes us behind that legend in this affectionate and respectful  unvarnished and candid account to reveal an exasperating  troubled  earthy  but brave and determined painter. At the heart of the memoir is a surreal journey with Martin down Canadas Mackenzie River  toward the Arctic  which her \"voices\" instructed her to undertake. Illustrated by Woodmans photographs  this book adds a crucial dimension to the Martin story and is destined to become a small classic of art biography.  Agnes Martin at Tate Modern (through Oct 2015) presents the first comprehensive survey of the seminal artist Agnes Martin. Martin was renowned for her subtle  evocative canvases marked out in pencil grids and pale color washes.This internationally touring show demonstrates Agnes Martin as one of the pre-eminent painters of the twentieth century and traces her career from early experiments to her final painting from 2004. Agnes Martin is co-curated at Tate Modern by Frances Morris  Director of Collection  International Art and Tiffany Bell  with Dr Lena Fritsch  Assistant Curator  Tate Modern. The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen  Dsseldorf  Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Solomon R Guggenheim Museum  New York where it will tour throughout 2015 and 2016.  Contents: Foreword by Jonathan D. Katz; Prologue; Chapter 1: A Note in the Door; Chapter 2: Lights  Camera  Action... Cut; Chapter 3: Until Death Do Us Part; Chapter 4: The Journey North; Chapter 5: Over the Edge; Chapter 6: Casting About; Chapter 7: Finding My Way Back Home; Chapter 8: Expulsion from the Garden; Chapter 9: Reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67956549189685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0996784306","price":50.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780996784306.jpg?v=1794461205","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/agnes-martin-and-me-9780996784306","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}