Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction - Hardcover

Jonathan Stuhlman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0943411491 ISBN 13: 9780943411491

Publisher: Hudson Hills, 2007

Synopsis

One of America's most innovative and popular artists, Georgia O'Keeffe is rightfully celebrated as 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. From her groundbreaking charcoal drawings of 1915 to her final paintings from the 1970s over the course of a career spanning more than seven decades Georgia O'Keeffe consistently incorporated swirling circular forms into her compositions. Her innovative use of this motif as a means of abstraction stands in contrast to the strategies adopted by many of her peers, which tended to be Cubist-based, using straight lines and angles rather than curves and circles. Using the circle and its kin - the ellipse, the oval, the spiral, and the arcing line - O'Keeffe explored the shifting terrain between abstraction and representation, sometimes calling upon them forms to represent a mood, a reaction to a sensation, or the spiritual essence of a subject,

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O Keeffe Museum and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Museum Research Center, is the author of many other publications, including "Georgia O Keeffe Catalogue Raisonne". Jonathan Weinberg is the author of several books, including "Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art" and "Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin".

About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0943411491
• ISBN 13: 9780943411491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132