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Essays on Various Topics

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Before 1990

1953. Aspects of Value in Contemporary Painting.

Undated in 1979.  Three Conversations plus Two More

Undated in 1988.  Worth a Life

June 29, 1988.   After the MFA

December 3, 1988.   In San Diego

 

The 1990's

Undated in 1990.  A Great Patriotic Grief (about Redon and the Franco Prussian War)

Undated, Spring 1990.  The Education of Painters.

March 5, 1991.  Going to the Dogs

Undated, 1996.  The Glory of the World

Undated 1999.  What is Art For?

Undated in the late 1990's
The Art of Jean Martin

 

The 2000's

August, 2003.  Art over the Sofa

Undated Fall, 2003. The Archetypes in the Studio.

Undated, Fall 2003.  Art and Alchemy

October, 2003.  My Work, a lecture on the occasion of my 2003 Retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California

February, 2005.  Not a New School.

October, 2005.  Geometry in Art and Time.

April, 2006.  Art and Money.

June, 2006.  On Teaching.

July, 2006.  The Crystal Dish.

August, 2006.  The Absolute Artist.

September 2006.  About Time.

Undated, Fall 2006. Ruin and Darkness, Beauty and Death.

August, 2007.   Old Age and Late Style

June 2008. Old Age and Plain Speaking, studio notes from June 6, 2008.