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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new edition)

Autor Roxana Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2020
This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe'New YorkerBorn on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a strikingly original and spirited young woman. Moving first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her studies, her consciousness was enlarged by her discovery of the modernist movement, and by the work both produced and shown by the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.Making her way in the world - first as a commercial artist and then as an art teacher - O'Keeffe developed her own original style. When Alfred Stieglitz discovered her work he was the first to exhibit it. Twenty-three years her senior, Stieglitz later fell in love with the artist as well as the work. O'Keeffe moved to New York in 1918 and married Stieglitz in 1924. She found herself a muse as well as an artist, and entered a circle of America's most vibrant and boundary-pushing artists - and became herself one of the most important and successful of them all.But O'Keeffe fell in love again - this time with the bewitching landscapes of New Mexico,. She began spending half of each year there, and when Stieglitz died in 1949 she moved there for good, and lived there for the rest of her life, taking pleasure in the otherworldly beauty of the Ghost Ranch, north of Abiquiú.Following O'Keeffe's early bud and sensational bloom, her loves, losses, agonies and ecstasies, and her painting against the dying of the light, Roxana Robinson's spellbinding and definitive biography has now been updated for the twenty-first century with a new foreword and access to never-before-seen letters. Written with the cooperation of the O'Keeffe family, and with access to sources closed to biographers during O'Keeffe's lifetime, It remains an unparalleled portrait of one of the most important female artists of all time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526625243
ISBN-10: 1526625245
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 59 mm
Greutate: 1.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The first biography written with the full cooperation of the O'Keeffe family and drawing on sources closed to writers during the artist's lifetime

Notă biografică

Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books: six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography ofGeorgia O'Keeffe: A Lifewhich was nominated for the Charles Eldredge Prize for Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared in theNew Yorker,The Atlantic,Harper's,Best American Short StoriesandTin House. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. She lives in New York. roxanarobinson.com

Recenzii

This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe and an invaluable reattribution not only for scholars but for the general public. It is accurate, insightful, and beautifully written
This book radiates a subtle understanding of complex human relations and pulsates with a quiet dramatic power
An ideal reader might start it without preconceptions about American painting generally, or O'Keeffe in particular. By the final page he should be hooked on both
Illuminating and fair-minded guide to the American art scene in the early and mid-twentieth century . Above all, Robinson makes one aware of the amount of hard work, self-sacrifice and singleminded determination which went into O'Keeffe's long career
Never have the controversial events and minutiae of O'Keeffe's life been presented so completely and even-handedly as in Roxana Robinson'sGeorgia O'Keeffe
Chockablock with intriguing detail, some apt insight, and best of all, O'Keeffe's own voice - in her letters and in the words of her family and friends who wouldn't talk to anyone before the artist's death at the age of 98 in 1986. It gives us the first sensible discussion of how photography influenced O'Keeffe's painting -her closeups, wide angles, cropping, distortion of scale, and zooms
The most comprehensive O'Keeffe biography to date, this essentially feminist reading convincingly builds its case from a wealth of sources (some unavailable before her death) to explain less the woman-behind-the-myth than how and why the woman herself became myth-maker

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This biography draws on many sources closed to writers during O'Keeffe's lifetime and has the co-operation of the O'Keeffe family. Her life spanned nearly a century of ferment and change in America and although part of the modernist movement she established her own unique vision. She was deeply influenced by feminist thought, having experience the early suffrage movement before World War I.

During the next wave of feminist thought in the seventies, she was hailed as a heroine.