Georgia O'Keeffe Author:Georgia O'Keeffe, Bice Curiger One of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, Georgia O'Keeffe is beloved by a broad audience that ranges from the most erudite art historian to the twelve-year-old girl next door. Her monumentally sensuous oil paintings of flowers hang in the best museum collections but are known as well via mass-produced posters, greeting cards an... more »d calendars; her weathered, elegant, fierce self has long been mythicized through Alfred Stieglitz's classic black-and-white photographs of his wife. This large-format monograph on O'Keefe renews her place in the modern canon and encourages an intensive encounter with her work. Her radical departures from imitative realism, the style that was prevalent when she began to study art making, eventually led to an idiosyncratic painting style characterized by a state of suspension. Over the course of her lengthy career--she worked up until two years before her death at age 98--she discovered and developed a personal language through which to express her own feelings and ideas, creating bold picture conceptions and spatial designs that hover somewhere between the real and the abstract, the close-up and the monumental, natural representation and artificiality. When I was still a little girl, I used to think that since I couldn't do what I wanted to...at least I could paint as I wanted to, and say what I wanted to when I painted.~~The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. --Georga O'Keeffe Edited by Bice Curiger.~Essays by Bice Curiger, Carter Ratcliff, Peter J. Schneimann and Robert Storr. Clothbound, 9.75 x 12.5 in./220 pgs / 70 color 30 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20407« less