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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new edition) (Paperback)
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new edition) (Paperback)
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This is without question the best book ever written on O’Keeffe'
New Yorker Born 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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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Roxana Robinson
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 59mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
720 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5266-2524-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5266-2524-5 |
Barcode: |
9781526625243 |
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