Brice Marden is considered one of the most influential painters of his generation. Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective - the book accompanying the artist's first full retrospective exhibition, opening in the fall of 2006 at The Museum of Modern Art - offers the first opportunity to view the development of Marden's work over more than forty years, from the early 1960s to the present. This unprecedented gathering of over 170 of Marden's paintings and drawings, ranging across his entire career, demonstrates the gradual, deliberate evolution of his art and his manifold explorations of color, surface, and light.