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Download or read book My Faraway One written by Sarah Greenough and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.
Book Synopsis How Georgia Became O'Keeffe by : Karen Karbo
Download or read book How Georgia Became O'Keeffe written by Karen Karbo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people associate Georgia O’Keeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long—born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986—that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching, striking, even fearful she once was—a dazzling, mysterious female force in bohemian New York City during its heyday. In this distinctive book, Karen Karbo cracks open the O’Keeffe icon in her characteristic style, making one of the greatest women painters in American history vital and relevant for yet another generation. She chronicles O’Keeffe’s early life, her desire to be an artist, and the key moment when art became her form of self-expression. She also explores O’Keeffe’s passionate love affair with master photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who took a series of 500 black-and-white photographs of O’Keeffe during the early years of their marriage. This is not a traditional biography, but rather a compelling, contemporary reassessment of the life of O’Keeffe with an eye toward understanding what we can learn from her way of being in the world.
Book Synopsis Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i by : Patricia Jennings
Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i written by Patricia Jennings and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduces O'Keeffe's 20 Hawai'i paintings, plus 50 period and locational photographs.
Book Synopsis Georgia O'Keeffe / John Loengard by : Georgia O'Keeffe
Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe / John Loengard written by Georgia O'Keeffe and published by Schirmer Mosel. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1966, photographer John Loengard was asked by Life magazine to photograph Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, where she had been living since the late 1930s. Georgia O'Keeffe was 79 years old at the time, Loengard was 32, and for three days he observed and photographed the private life of this pioneer artist who virtually redefined American painting. For this unique book, we selected almost fifty of the finest black-and-white pictures Loengard took of the grand, solitary woman in the desert, and juxtaposed them with selected paintings of hers. They record the course of a day in the life of Georgia O'Keeffe from sunrise to sunset, developing their own quiet, mysterious effect. It becomes clear how much the austere poetry of the landscape corresponded to the artist's own self-created world and how her artistic imagination was kindled by bleached bones and an infinite desert. Now available as a reduced size reprint.
Book Synopsis Through Georgia's Eyes by : Rachel Rodríguez
Download or read book Through Georgia's Eyes written by Rachel Rodríguez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Georgia O'Keeffe from her childhood in Wisconsin through her work in New Mexico.
Book Synopsis Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities by : Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities written by Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced paintings and photographs are accompanied by critical essays on Adams and O'Keeffe and a biographical essay on the friendship between Adams, O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Book Synopsis A Painter's Kitchen by : Margaret Wood
Download or read book A Painter's Kitchen written by Margaret Wood and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of laughter and comic relief are a timeless, vital aspect of Hispanic culture. In this book practical jokes, pranks, slips-of-the-tongue, hyperbole, and slapstick are given in English and regional Spanish.
Book Synopsis Maria Chabot--Georgia O'Keeffe by : Georgia O'Keeffe
Download or read book Maria Chabot--Georgia O'Keeffe written by Georgia O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a portrait of the friendship between Maria Chabot (1913-2001) and American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) seen through the lens of their personal correspondence to each other. For four summers beginning in 1941, when O'Keeffe was in New Mexico, Chabot lived with the artist at Ghost Ranch, managing her house and guests, and organizing the famed camping-painting trips from which came some of O'Keeffe's most distinguished works of the period. In 1946, Chabot agreed to conceive and oversee the reconstruction of a ruined adobe house in New Mexico that would become O'Keeffe's permanent home in 1949. During the periods when O'Keeffe was in New York where she lived with her husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the two women wrote each other with remarkable frequency. Their letters describe their love for northern New Mexico, the hardships of life there during World War II, and their interactions with the diverse cultural groups of the region. The letters also offer insights into the women's very different ways of dealing with the world and their differing perceptions of a complex and sometimes tempestuous friendship.
Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe written by Wanda M. Corn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award This book explores how Georgia O’Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O’Keeffe’s clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O’Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today’s fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O’Keeffe "never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another." This fresh and carefully researched study brings O’Keeffe’s style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O’Keeffe’s unified modernist aesthetic. This book accompanies the show at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style.
Book Synopsis Dinner with Georgia O'Keeffe by : Robyn Lea
Download or read book Dinner with Georgia O'Keeffe written by Robyn Lea and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Georgia O'Keeffe, food was elevated to an art form. Not only in her works, but in its preparation and consumption. This book, including fifty of the artist's favorite recipes, balances the fresh local and traditional ingredients O'Keeffe sought with the New Mexican landscape and culture that influenced both her art and sense of self"--Back cover.
Download or read book O'Keeffe written by C. S. Merrill and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."--Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses "When I got O'Keeffe mss I sat down after midnite at kitchen table when I should've been in bed & read it thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary & understandable. The details are all, sacramentalizing everyday life in a world of genius--a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation."--Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl
Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe written by and published by D.Ap./Thyssen-Bornemisza. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful two-volume catalog--which presents more than 2000 works by O'Keeffe in a variety of media--displays her innovative use of color and form and in the process sheds light on her distinctive contribution to American modernism. 2,150 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Meet the Artist: Georgia O'Keefe by : Marina Munn
Download or read book Meet the Artist: Georgia O'Keefe written by Marina Munn and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully designed activity book introducing young artists to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe Come and meet Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the twentieth century's most significant American artists. She transformed the way we look at things through her largescale paintings of flowers, cityscapes, desert scenes, bone compositions, and abstract arrangements. Explore O'Keeffe's unique perspective as you draw, paint, and play your way through activities based on her artwork, and discover how to use art to express your own view of the world. Part of Tate's newly revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books, Meet Georgia O'Keeffe is bursting with inspiring activities based on some of the artist's key pieces, which are reproduced in full color.
Book Synopsis Miss O'Keeffe by : Christine Taylor Patten
Download or read book Miss O'Keeffe written by Christine Taylor Patten and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia O’Keeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Patten’s employment offers a rare glimpse of O’Keeffe’s daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.
Book Synopsis Making The Met, 1870–2020 by : Andrea Bayer
Download or read book Making The Met, 1870–2020 written by Andrea Bayer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to celebrate The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, Making The Met, 1870–2020 examines the institution’s evolution from an idea—that art can inspire anyone who has access to it—to one of the most beloved global collections in the world. Focusing on key transformational moments, this richly illustrated book provides insight into the visionary figures and events that led The Met in new directions. Among the many topics explored are the impact of momentous acquisitions, the central importance of education and accessibility, the collaboration that resulted from international excavations, the Museum’s role in preserving cultural heritage, and its interaction with contemporary art and artists. Complementing this fascinating history are more than two hundred works that changed the very way we look at art, as well as rarely seen archival and behind-the-scenes images. In the final chapter, Met Director Max Hollein offers a meditation on evolving approaches to collecting art from around the world, strategies for reaching new and diverse audiences, and the role of museums today.
Book Synopsis Lovingly, Georgia by : Georgia O'Keeffe
Download or read book Lovingly, Georgia written by Georgia O'Keeffe and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
