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    Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

    By Roxana Robinson

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJun 16, 2016
    ISBN9781408882146
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    Roxana Robinson

    Roxana Robinson is the author of four novels and three short-story collections, as well as one biography. Four of her works have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and Vogue, among other publications, and she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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    • 4/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      a excellent biography of ms o'keeffe
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      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 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 initiationsPart III: 1919-1928. An ordered life: Manhattan and Lake GeorgePart IV: 1929-1946. A fair division: New York and New MexicoPart V: 1947-1972. A peaceful life: the land of shining StonePart VI: 1973-1986. The dying of the light