Georgia O. Keeffe Livres

Few couples in 20th-century American art and culture are as significant as Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. From 1915 to 1946, they exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) detailing their lives. This volume presents around 650 carefully selected and annotated letters by photography scholar Sarah Greenough. The correspondence captures their initial romance in the 1910s, their life together in the 1920s, the strain on their relationship during the early Depression years, and its revival in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Their distinct writing styles—O'Keeffe's sparse vibrancy and Stieglitz's fervent lyricism—offer insights into their creative evolution and friendships with influential figures in early American modernism, such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, and Paul Strand. The letters also highlight their interactions with key personalities in American and European art and culture, including Duncan Phillips, Diego Rivera, and Marcel Duchamp. Additionally, their poignant prose reflects the broader cultural influences of World Wars I and II, the 1920s economic boom, and the 1930s Depression on their lives as articulate, creative individuals.

Birth of the Cool presents art that developed in subtle deviation from the familiar movements of 20th century American painting through retaining their main characteristics as points of reference. The accentuation of the surface, the breaking up of illusionistic space, the opening up of the painting's format to new dimensions in space and time are the lasting constants of American painting. The American tradition in painting is a tradition that is both sensual and severe, intellectual and emotional and above all open to modern society.

Flowers in the desert. Sensuality and colors that merge with nature. The art of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is splendid with color and imbued with hidden sensuality. O'Keeffe's fame was largely earned through her large-format flower photographs, securing her an unusual place in the annals of art, between realism and abstraction.

'O'Keeffe, despite her gifts and her benevolent spirit, has not had a chance.... If this town (New York) was a bit simpler, a bit less impure, it might be at home with her simple purity.... For O'Keeffe is a peasant--a glorified American peasant.' - Waldo Frank, 1926.

O'Keeffe's 1927 painting expresses her defiant commitment to abstraction and the influences of Kandinsky, Dove and others During the 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) became widely known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. But she regularly returned to abstraction, and indeed found it "surprising how many people separate the objective from the abstract." Executed in 1927, Abstraction Blueillustrates that belief, retaining the glowing color, careful modulation and zoomed-in view of the artist's contemporaneous blooms, while forgoing any obligation toward representation. In this latest volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Samantha Friedman considers how these and other factors converged in the creation of this composition.

The year 1987 marked the centennial of the birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of our nation's best known and inventive artists, and this book of her art celebrates that event. Approximately 120 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations. ** ISBN 0-8212-1686-4. ** Amazon One should not commit the injustice of calling this an exhibition catalog, because it stands so well apart from the splendid traveling collection it accompanies. This is a book of wonders in many respects. The essays illuminate selected corners of O'Keeffe's life and art. The letters, full of vivacity, keen insight, and hard thinking, show how she saw her life and chose to live. Above all are the brilliantly reproduced paintings; easily seen as sensual, they are also tightly controlled visions of color and form, monumental and deeply intellectual. It is far too easy to make O'Keeffe a cultural icon instead of seeing her as one of the America's two or three greatest artists. This book argues the latter with sweet force. GraceAnne A. DeCandido,"Library Journal".

Als die amerikanische Malerin Georgia 0Keeffe (1887-1986) im Alter von 99 Jahren starb, hinterließ sie ein Werk, das sie schon zu Lebzeiten zur Legende gemacht hatte. Lebensgefährtin des sehr viel älteren berühmten New Yorker Photographen und Galeristen Alfred Stieglitz, der ihr Talent entdeckte und sie 1924 heiratete, schuf Georgia 0Keeffe zwischen 1918 und 1932 zahlreiche Blumenbilder voller sinnlich-pulsierender Ausstrahlung und Magie. Andere Themen kamen hinzu oder wurden weiterentwickelt: abstrakte Kompositionen, Wüstenlandschaften, Stadtansichten, Knochen, Muscheln - in reinen Farben gemalt, von beeindruckender Intensität, voller Licht und Volumen. Blumen und Farbe - so charakterisierte schon 1927 der amerikanische Maler Charles Demuth die Bilder dieser ungewöhnlichen Frau. Unser kleiner Band versammelt 39 ihrer bedeutendsten Meisterwerke.