... first section of the book. Immediately, she reveals feelings so different from what she is "supposed" to be experiencing in the glamorous and wonderful world of New York: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." She knew ... " world she inhabits. It was a time when "women were discouraged from attending college" (Nash 612), and use of any education was merely to "influence [a] husband and children in the direction of rationality" (Steiner 80-81). Voicing dissatisfaction with the role of mother and homema...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Elkon Gallery in New York almost annually since 1961, she abruptly gave up painting in 1967 and moved to Cuba, New Mexico. "Every day I suddenly felt I wanted to die and it was connected with painting," she explained, as quoted in World Artists 1950-1980. "It took me several ... years to find out that the cause was an overdeveloped sense of responsibility." In her six years of self-rediscovery, ... at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, was called "On the Perfection Underlying Life." Over the years Agnes Martin can be seen as striving to open herself to happiness, which she has def...

• Word Count: 3087
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate