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Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers

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While the pictures are wonderful, for an aging dinosaur like myself they are just too small. It is very hard to see the pictures!

Would have given it 10 stars if it was just a larger book. Some of the flowers are only one inch high, much too small for me to appreciate the detail.

Where can we find this in an 8.5 x 11 version?

A picture is worth a thousand words; and one hundred pictures that happen to be O'Keeffe's are priceless. The works accurately portray the artist's keen eye for the beauty found in the smallest of mother earth's gifts: the flower. The book is an overall thorough and concise summary of the artist's most prized achievements.

So said O'Keefe in describing what it's like to hold a flower and really to look at it.

O'Keefe managed to convey some of that wonder in paint. She grew them to huge size, setting them at or above human scale. She drew them in scorching colors, like "Poppy" or "Oriental poppy," or in stark lights and darks ("Jimson weed" and "Black hollyhock"). She displayed them with human passion, possibly drawing parallels between a plant's organs of regeneration and a human's ("Red canna" and "Yellow sweet peas"). Whatever you see in these - and different people will see differently - they are monumental presentations of something we think of as small and delicate. By itself, that's a message: the big and the small are equals in the world, when considered at their proper scale.

Maybe it's not fair to O'Keefe's ouvre to isolate one part of it like this - she preferred to show her work with a better balance of subjects and styles. These wonderful paintings deserve attention of their own, though. Some of the paintings are up to six feet tall and seven wide - even at 12"x10", book can't capture the full drama of the work. Still, it's an amazing collection.

//wiredweird

O'Keeffe can magnify the beauty of flowers magically in her paintings. Her perception allows the everyday art lover to escape into God's garden and visualize the serenity found in heaven.

The book was in great condition. No tearing, no writing on pages. Plastic on outside of cover. Very well maintained. Very happy with product. Will do business with this supplier again. Thank You very much.

I purchased this book to replace a copy that was stolen from the local library using my daughter's stolen library card. The price was $75, so I assumed it was a hardback, which is what the library wanted. When it came, it was a paperback with the original price marked on the back cover:$8.95. The library would not accept it and I had to pay them the replacement cost they listed: $105. I contacted the seller and he indicated that he would accept a return but not for the full price. I emailed him to ask how much he would refund and I have not heard from him since. It has been more than three months, and I am out $180. Nothing in the seller's info indicated that this was a paperback or that no refund would be given.

I have not received this book yet. I don't know why......Why did I have to rate this item with one star in order to send this review. That star in #2 is invalid.