Georgia O'Keeffe

✍ Scribed by O'Keeffe, Georgia;Scott, Nancy J

Publisher: Reaktion Books
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Series: Critical lives (London England)
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Georgia O'Keeffe, the most famous woman artist of American modernism and a pioneer in abstract art, created a vision without precedent. She expressed the grandeur of her world in the Southwest, from the high desert mesas to the smallest flower, with fierce independence. And a separate world has risen up around her fame: from the photographic nudes of her by Alfred Stieglitz to the iconic images of her, years later, set in the stunning landscapes of New Mexico.

In this book, Nancy J. Scott draws on extensive sources—including many of O'Keeffe's letters—to offer a sensitive and incisive examination of her groundbreaking works, their evolution, and how their reception has been caught in conflicts between O'Keeffe's inner self and public persona. Following the young artist as her path-breaking, abstract charcoal landscapes caught the attention of gallery impresario Stieglitz, Scott tells the story of their partnership, of Stieglitz's nudes, and the development of...

✦ Subjects

Artists;Artists--United States;Biographies;Artists -- United States -- Biography;O'Keeffe, Georgia, -- 1887-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation;United States

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