{"product_id":"agnes-martin-night-sea-9781846381713","title":"Agnes Martin: Night Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eA close examination of Agnes Martin's grid painting in luminous blue and gold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgnes Martin's \u003ci\u003eNight Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the work of an artist who was also a thinker, poet, and writer for whom self-presentation was a necessary part of making her works public. With\u003ci\u003e Night Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, Hudson argues, Martin (1912-2004) created a shimmering realization of control and loss that stands alone within her suite of classic grid paintings as an exemplary and exceptional achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHudson offers a close examination of \u003ci\u003eNight Sea \u003c\/i\u003eand its position within Martin's long and prolific career, during which the artist destroyed many works as she sought forms of perfection within self-imposed restrictions of color and line. For Hudson, \u003ci\u003e Night Sea\u003c\/i\u003e stands as the last of Martin's process-based works before she turned from oil to acrylic and sought to express emotions of lightness and purity unburdened by evidence of human struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from a range of archival records, Hudson attempts to draw together the facts surrounding the work, which were at times obfuscated by the artist's desire for privacy. Critical responses of the time give a sense of the impact of the work and that which followed it. Texts by peers including Lenore Tawney, Donald Judd, and Lucy Lippard are presented alongside interviews with a number of Martin's friends and keepers of estates, such as the publisher Ronald Feldman and Kathleen Mangan of the Lenore Tawney archive, which holds correspondence between Martin and Tawney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Afterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846381713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Suzanne P. Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44576555008181,"sku":"9781846381713","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_94a4b4dd-be07-4ec8-93f7-12bf757fb197.jpg?v=1724175726","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/agnes-martin-night-sea-9781846381713","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}