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Georgia O'Keeffe / Lisa Mintz Messinger.
Fine Arts Library N6537.O39 .M47 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Messinger, Lisa Mintz.
- Series:
- World of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- O'Keeffe, Georgia.
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986.
- Painting--United States.
- Painting.
- Women painters.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Women painters--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.
- Summary:
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career she remained true to her unique artistic vision, creating a highly individual style that synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the themes of traditional American pictorialism. The main subjects to which she returned again and again were the flowers, animal bones and landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York, and New Mexico, and these became her signature images.
- This comprehensive and illuminating new book by a noted scholar on O'Keeffe and her work surveys the complete oeuvre -- drawings, watercolors and paintings from all periods -- and explains her life in the context of her artistic output. The text, which incorporates current scholarship and benefits from the recent publication of the artist's catalogue raisonne, is accompanied by a full complement of color plates and comparative black-and-white photographs.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Early Work: Finding Her Own Voice 18
- Chapter 2 In New York: First Oil Paintings 40
- Chapter 3 Lake George 52
- Chapter 4 New York City: Architectural Subjects 76
- Chapter 5 Abstractions and Transitions 89
- Chapter 6 From New York to New Mexico 104
- Chapter 7 Bones: Skulls and Pelvises 122
- Chapter 8 The New Mexico Landscape: Ghost Ranch 140
- Chapter 9 The Abiquiu House and Patio 149
- Chapter 10 Late Work: Influenced by Travel 158.
- Notes:
- "121 illustrations, 68 in color."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500203407
- OCLC:
- 45899347
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