Agnes Martin
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Agnes Martin (Macklin, 22 marzo 1912 – New York, 16 dicembre 2004) è stata una pittrice statunitense.
Agnes Martin (22 marzo, 1912 – 16 dicembre, 2004) era una pittrice canadese-statunitense considerata come minimalista; Martin si considerava all'interno del movimento dell'espressionismo astratto. Nata a Macklin, Saskatchewan si trasferì negli Stati Uniti nel 1931, dove nel 1950 ebbe la cittadinanza. Ha studiato alla Columbia University e più tardi alla University of New Mexico.
[modifica] Riferimenti culturali
L'opera Redbird di John Zorn è ispirata e dedicata a Martin.
Sister Wendy Beckett, in her book American Masterpieces, said about Martin: "Agnes Martin often speaks of joy; she sees it as the desired condition of all life. Who would disagree with her?... No-one who has seriously spent time before an Agnes Martin, letting its peace communicate itself, receiving its inexplicable and ineffable happiness, has ever been disappointed. The work awes, not just with its delicacy, but with its vigor, and this power and visual interest is something that has to be experienced."
[modifica] Bibliografia
- Martin, Agnes, Writings, edited by Dieter Schwarz, Winterthur: Ostfildern, Cantz Verlag, 1991.
- Krauss, Rosalind E., "Agnes Martin: The/Could/", in :Inside the Visible, edited by Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press, 1996.
- Pollock, Griselda, "Agnes Dreaming: Dreaming Agnes", in 3 X Abstraction, edited by Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher, New Haven: Yale University Press and NY: The Drawing Center, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10826-5.
- Fer, Briony, "Drawing Drawing: Agnes Martin's Infinity", in: 3 X Abstraction, edited by Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher, New Haven: Yale University Press and NY: The Drawing Center, 2005. Reprinted in Women Artists at the Millennium, edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press / October Books, 2006.
