Beschreibung:
"Agnes Martin is an iconic figure: the alienated, contradictory genius in thrall to a higher aesthetic purpose. Her art, epically stripped down, abstracted, and refined, says so little about the figure who made it that we have come to settle for [a] formulaic, largel mythic biography while carefully quoting her eminently quotable pronouncements... But Donald Woodman, who knew Martin as well as anyone could, ofers us a bracing corrective. His very different Martin narrative replaces oracular metaphysics and sweeping Zen-inflected edicts with an intimate account of seven rollercoaster years with a maddening, self-centered, and abusive, if brilliant, artist...The picture of Martin that emerges is one of an artist at once imperious and needy, certain of her rectitude, driven and self-absorbed."