Georgia O'Keeffe has been recognized as one of America's most adventurous early modernist artists. But critics often suggest that she became a revolutionary despite her American background, not because of it. This work challenges this point of view. Dijkstra shows that O'Keeffe's work was decisively shaped by the America in which she grew up, illuminating the facts of O'Keeffe's life and offering different readings of some of her most important paintings. Art historians have largely accepted the view that O'Keeffe's art was ...
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Georgia O'Keeffe has been recognized as one of America's most adventurous early modernist artists. But critics often suggest that she became a revolutionary despite her American background, not because of it. This work challenges this point of view. Dijkstra shows that O'Keeffe's work was decisively shaped by the America in which she grew up, illuminating the facts of O'Keeffe's life and offering different readings of some of her most important paintings. Art historians have largely accepted the view that O'Keeffe's art was shaped by Alfred Stieglitz and the work of European modernists she encountered under his tutelage. Dijkstra counters this idea describing the cultural environment of O'Keeffe's childhood and revealing the details of her early education in art. He shows that O'Keeffe's mature style found its origin in such sources as Edgar Allan Poe's speculations about the androgynous nature of the soul before industrialism, and in what Dijkstra calls the "transcendental materialism" of the tonalist movement in turn-of-the-century American art. The book also explores O'Keeffe's identification with the feminist aims and artistic concerns of the radical periodical "The Masses". It shows that the illustrations featured there and in other magazines of the period, significantly influenced her development of a personal style. The book argues that O'Keeffe's very American search for an organic abstraction of form that would celebrate nature, allowed her to develop a humanist style that challenged the early European modernists' emphasis on mechanistic constructions of form against nature.
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NF in F jacket. Octavo. Decorative, cream colored cloth boards and spine with charcoal colored lettering on the spine. Book has a nearly unnoticable bump at the tail of the spine. Slate blue endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 272 pages. Dust Jacket has no discernable flaws-clean, bright, and sharp. Illustrated throughout with O'Keeffe's artwork.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. x, 272pp, b/w ills, bibliography, index. The upper corners of pp 81/82 and 163/164 are creased. There is some unlderlining in blue biro on about five pages in Chapter XIII The "Woman Artist" and the Great Transition. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book presents a 'major reassessment of O'Keeffe's place in American culture and a tribute to the artist's refusal to abandon her "provincial" belief in the shaping spirit of place'.
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