Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2016
656 pages
978-1-4088-8214-6 (ISBN)
Description
Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. Coming of age during the rise of American modernism, O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships - with the great ferment of ideas in modern art, with family, friends and especially noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who became her husband. In her work she drew on abstraction, modernism, photography and Asian sources, producing a body of work both powerful and unique. The images she created - the red hills, the magnified flowers, the great crosses and white bones - are irrevocably hers and known throughout the world. She was a natural feminist, and hailed as a heroine by the wave of Feminism of the 1970s.
This biography, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, draws on many sources closed to writers during O'Keeffe's lifetime and the author was given the co-operation of the O'Keeffe family and access to the letters between the artist and her circle.
This biography, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, draws on many sources closed to writers during O'Keeffe's lifetime and the author was given the co-operation of the O'Keeffe family and access to the letters between the artist and her circle.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8214-6 (9781408882146)
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Person
Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books - six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors' Choices. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Best American Short Stories, Tin House and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I: 1887-1902 Sun Prairie: The Wide and Generous Land
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- Part II: 1903-1918 Distant Skies: Explorations and Initiations
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- Part III: 1919-1928 An Ordered Life: Manhattan and Lake George
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- Part IV: 1929-1946 A Fair Division: New York and New Mexico
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- Part V: 1947-1972 A Peaceful Life: The Land of Shining Stone
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- Part VI: 1973-1986 Withdrawal: The Dying of the Light
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- Sources and Codes for Notes
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- eCopyright
