Agnes Martin / Navajo Blankets

Agnes Martin, Marc Glimcher, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, and Bruce Hainley2019With reproductions and installation views of the 2018 bicoastal exhibition, this catalogue brings together the meditative paintings of Agnes Martin, who spent much of her life in New Mexico, and 19th-century Navajo textiles, which also channel ideals of harmony and balance through abstraction.A conversation between Martin’s biographer Nancy Princenthal and cultural anthropologist Anne Lane Hedlund considers the connection and elucidates shared sensibilities.EnglishClothbound hardcover80 pages10.75 x 9.75 inches