A survey of the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of this century's most influential American painters, which traces the genesis and growth of her artistic imagination. This book is organized around the various themes that she explored in her art.
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O'Keeffe painted rural idylls, severe urban nocturnes, a transcendental cloudscape and vibrantly colorful dot-pictures. Beginning in the 1950s, her wide travels triggered mystical paintings, such as her shimmering recollection of the Peruvian Andes. The colorful, swirling Pelvic Holes series of the U.S. Southwest, overshadowed by her austere images of cows' skulls, evoke something distinctively American. This superbly illustrated study contains many astonishing works and presents O'Keeffe as a more original, deeply informed and diverse artist than many assume. Eldredge, University of Kansas art professor, argues that O'Keeffe's flower paintings, known for their sexual imagery, are freighted with associations from ancient mythology. He traces the influence of Kandinsky's color theory on her palette, the spectrum of which was amplified by Texas sunrises, upstate New York lakes and New Mexico deserts.
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In his opening chapter, Charles C Eldredge, professor of art at the University of Kansas, writes at length about the indomitable Georgia O'Keeffe and in the succeeding chapters to as he looks at various aspects of her work under the headings: Abstraction, Lake Georgia, Fruit and Leaf, Flower, City, Desert, Bone and Sky. In doing so he encompasses O'Keeffe's complete oeuvre. He concludes his study with a chronology and a selected bibliography.
The book is illustrated throughout with around 55 colour plates and over 5o black and white illustrations, including some pictures published here for the first time. The majority of the colour plates and a few of the monochromes are full page. This is a well produced large format book printed on heavy stock, the text is interesting and accessible; and it is enlightening to see the wide range of the artist's output, and the familiar alongside to unfamiliar. 12.25" x 9.25" (31.1 cm x 23.5 cm) 160 pages. Published 1991. ISBN 0810936577. Hardback.
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- Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle in Back Matter
- A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Richard Kostelanetz on page 455
- Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography by Sue Davidson Lowe on page 454
- From Santa Fe to O'Keeffe Country: A Journey Through the Soul of New Mexico (Adventure Roads Travel) by Rhonda Barkan on page 62
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