Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings - the exquisite recesses of flowers, the southwestern hills, clouds, and bleached bones, the sculptural abstract forms painted in strong, clear colours - are beloved by critics and public alike. This book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Charles C. Eldredge begins with a discussion of O'Keeffe as an American artist, describing the openly nationalistic billing that her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, gave to her New York one-woman show in 1923, the ways in which she fits into an American tradition in painting that extends back to Copley and the Peale family, and her reluctance to be influenced by foreign art trends. Recounting how O'Keeffe left New York and returned to the rural subjects of her childhood, Eldredge shows that the artist's preoccupation with subjects such as barns not only reflected an urge to paint "something I know" but also aligned her with the Transcendentalist tradition in American thought. Eldredge explores the psychoanalytic speculation surrounding the strong element of sexuality in O'Keeffe's work, setting her in the context of America's awakening enthusiasm for Freudian theorizing and assessing the extent to which her work can be seen as feminine self-revelation. He describes O'Keeffe's modernity, her innovative readiness to push her art towards abstraction and serial art. And he analyzes her aesthetic vision, which, moulded by western landscape, the photographic techniques absorbed from Stieglitz, and her faith in a spiritual cosmos, helped her to create a unique body of work. This book, which reproduces a rich selection of O'Keeffe's paintings, and includes full commentary for each work, will serve as the catalogue for an exhibition of O'Keeffe's work opening at London's Hayward Gallery in April 1993 and then moving on to Mexico City and Yokohama.
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never too many books of O'Keeffe paintings,
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This is the catalog for an international exhibition that was shown in England, Mexico, and Japan. Eldredge offers an interesting, readable, brief biography of the artist and a thoughtful, coherent discussion of the paintings in the exhibit, most of which are reproduced as full-page color plates. Arguably the most important among American artists, there can never be too many books of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.
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This book has a thorough and interesting history of the artist and explanations of her works defining moments of massive growth as an artist. The history describes well her confidences arising out of her doubts.
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WITH "Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern," we present the first international exhibition of one of America's foremost painters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, New Mexico, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz, New Mexican, Todd Webb, Ghost Ranch, United States, Georgia O'Keeffe, National Gallery of Art, Marsden Hartley, Anderson Galleries, Ansel Adams, Courtesy of Evans Gallery, Paul Strand, Art Institute of Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Rosenfeld, Fort Worth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Rebecca Strand, Downtown Gallery, Intimate Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art New!
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WITH "Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern," we present the first international exhibition of one of America's foremost painters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, New Mexico, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz, New Mexican, Todd Webb, Ghost Ranch, United States, Georgia O'Keeffe, National Gallery of Art, Marsden Hartley, Anderson Galleries, Ansel Adams, Courtesy of Evans Gallery, Paul Strand, Art Institute of Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Rosenfeld, Fort Worth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Rebecca Strand, Downtown Gallery, Intimate Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art New!
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- New Mexico (America Series) by Tanya Lloyd Kyi on 6 pages
- Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings by Sarah Greenough on 5 pages
- New Mexico (Rookie Read-About Geography) by Cynthia Walker in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Literature (Widener Library Shelflist, Nos. 26 and 27) by Richard De Gennard on page 159, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography) by Alfred Stieglitz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own by Ms. Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall in Back Matter
- Inward to the Bones by Kate Braid in Back Matter
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