LEADER 02621pam 2200193 a 4500
001 890846
005 20181210092822.0
008 181225s2015 enka g b 000 0beng d
020 $a9781780234281 (pbk.) :$cNT$698
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 4$aN6537.O39$bS26 2015
082 04$a759.13$222
100 1 $aScott, Nancy J.,$d1949-.
245 10$aGeorgia O'Keeffe /$cNancy J. Scott.
260 $aLondon :$bReaktion Books,$c2015.
300 $a253 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aCritical lives.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-246).
505 00$tIntroduction: pioneer, independent spirit, visionary --$tFamily untied: an artistic education --$tBreakthrough: 'charcoal landscapes' --$tPainting in canyon: 'between heaven and earth' --$tA portrait: woman --$tNew York: 'the nimbusof lustre' --$tNew Mexico: 'I feel like bursting' - -$tThe great depression: New York and Lake George --$tGhost ranch --$tSky above clouds --$tEpilogue: ancient spirit.
520 $aGeorgia O'Keeffe, the most famous woman artist of American modernism in the twentieth century and a pioneer in shaping abstract art, created an unprecedented, fiercely independent and intense world, focused as much on the grandeur of the high desert mesas and cliffs as on the smallest flower. A world has formed around O'Keeffe as well, incorporating the photographic nude studies of her by Alfred Stieglitz, a gallery impresario and leading advocate of photography as a fine art as well as O'Keeffe's mentor and later husband, and the photographs of O'Keeffe in her later years. Nancy J. Scott examines O'Keeffe's work, its evolution and the conflicts between the artist's inner self and public personality, using a broad range of sources including many of O'Keeffe's letters. Her letters exchanged with Stieglitz, long restricted by the terms of O'Keeffe's will, show that her words could be as revelatory as her painting, as they intimately show her growing love for Stieglitz, and the tumult of their long union as artists. O'Keeffe's reputation as a sexually inspired, Freudian-minded artist preceded the reception of her art in the gallery. Neither wholly abstract nor realist, but a melding of realist interpretations of flowers, bones, shells, rocks and the landscape, her art is structured with abstract design. She identified the power of landscape, discovered first in Texas and later in the desert of New Mexico, as a primary inspiration. Nancy J. Scott's succinct yet comprehensive account of O'Keeffe's long life and prolific body of work, and her presence at the forefront of American abstract art over eight decades, will both inform and fascinate.
550 $aWorldShare provided record.
600 10$aO'Keeffe, Georgia,$d1887-1986.
600 10$aO'Keeffe, Georgia,$d1887-1986$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0$aArtists$zUnited States$vBiography.
830 0$aCritical lives.