Cover of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
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Agnes Martin

On Beauty

Cover of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
PUBLICATION DETAILS

Edited by Milly Glimcher; Text by Agnes Martin
2025
Hardcover
72 pages
9 × 6 ½ in.

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"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life,” wrote Agnes Martin in 1989.

Edited by Milly Glimcher, this book collects writings by the artist centered around the theme of beauty but touching many subjects related to her life and work, from nature and politics to the inspiration found in solitude and silence. Poetic and reflective, these texts range from compact insights to longer meditations, such as “The Current of the River of Life Moves Us” and “The Untroubled Mind.” Agnes Martin: On Beauty also includes reproductions of select paintings from the latter years of her life.

Interior Spread of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
Interior Spread of Agnes Martin: On Beauty

The life of an artist is completely unmaterialistic, because beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.

Agnes Martin

Interior Spread of Agnes Martin: On Beauty

Beauty illustrates happiness; the wind in the grass, the glistening waves following each other, the flight of birds, all speak of happiness.

Agnes Martin

Interior Spread of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
Interior Spread of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
Cover of Agnes Martin: On Beauty
  • Pace Publishing — Agnes Martin: On Beauty, Oct 23, 2025