1. Agnes Martin once said, "It is not the role of the artist to worry about life--to feel responsible for creating a better world." How are Martin’s works different from those of her contemporaries, i.e. Do they convey any hidden statements about society or the lifestyles of the modern world?

The 1960s in America was an extremely radical time period in terms of society and politics particularly with the war going on in Vietnam. These revolutionary events going on across the seas along with other gradual factors seemed to trickle down at home, eventually leading into several different art movements like feminism and performance art; all of which had their take onto what is really going on in the world at that time. Agnes Martin was really unlike other artists in that, she didn’t really show her stance in the realm of politics. Her work was mainly meditative and spiritual about larger concepts like “infiniteness” and “continuity.”

2.In Hanne Darboven’s Untitled, 1976. Ink, paper and envelope, the 27 lines consisting of short, handwritten statements is considered art because of the fact that, “Writing in this labour of love, becomes a form of drawing.” Can this letter really be labeled as art or does it fall more into the category of poetry and writing?