Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

by Roxana Robinson

Hardcover, 1989

Status

Checked out

Publication

Harpercollins (1989), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 639 pages

Description

"Georgia O'Keeffe is arguably the 20th century's leading woman artist. Coming of age along with American modernism, her life was rich in intense relationships --with family, friends, and especially noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her struggle between the rigorous demands of love and work resulted in extraordinary accomplishments. Her often-eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises became extremely well known to a broad American public"--

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LibraryThing member michaelbartley
a excellent biography of ms o'keeffe
LibraryThing member timswings
Clear, lucid, understanding and thoroughly researched biography. Roxana Robinson sheds full light on the complex nuances of the long life and career of O’Keeffe (1887-1986). A career which intertwined with the history and art of the twentieth century.
O’Keeffe’s life spanned nearly a century
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of change in America. Although she was part of the modernist movement, she established her own unique vision. She can be called a pioneer who worked in her own style and on her own terms. Perhaps O’Keeffe’s most significant contribution to art history was her unique approach to abstraction and her use of flamboyant color. Photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz whom she married in 1924, was important for her development as an artist. She was also deeply influenced by feminist thought, having experienced the early suffrage movement before World War I. And she believed in her own unique sense of her talent which she put down in her paintings.
Robinson structures her research in the following parts:
Part I: 1887-1902. Sun prairie: the wide and generous land.
Part II: 1903-1918. Distant skies: explorations and initiations
Part III: 1919-1928. An ordered life: Manhattan and Lake George
Part IV: 1929-1946. A fair division: New York and New Mexico
Part V: 1947-1972. A peaceful life: the land of shining Stone
Part VI: 1973-1986. The dying of the light
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LibraryThing member buffalogr
One of the most well researched books on the life of Georgia O'Keeffe. It was instructive as a text on the people she knew, her interactions with them as well as a well written general biography. The author dealt with conflicts frankly and laid out her cases succinctly. She leaves the reader with
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the idea that O'Keeffe was a loner who proved that women could be successful in the 20th century, especially as an artist. I think that I'll read another book to get another perspective, though.
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Physical description

639 p.; 9.3 inches

ISBN

0060159650 / 9780060159658
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