Georgia O'Keeffe American and Modern Author:Charles Eldredge This magnificent book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Eldredge discovers for example, O'Keeffe's connection to the Transcendentalist tradition in American thought, and her relationship to America's awakening enthusiasm for Freudian theorizing and... more » feminine self-revelation. He also describes O'Keeffe's modernity, her innovative readiness to push her art toward abstraction and serial art.« less