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Georgia O'Keeffe - Haskell, Barbara; Robertson, E. Bruce; Turner, Elizabeth Hutton; Lynes, Barbara Buhler; Whitney Museum of American Art; Nicholas, Sasha - Yale University Press
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Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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Georgia O'KeeffeAbstraction
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Edited by Barbara Haskell; With essays by Barbara Haskell, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Bruce Robertson, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner; Contributions by Sasha Nicholas
Selected as one of The Most Beautiful Books of the Year/Christmas Gifts 2009, Lena Tabori, the Huffington Post Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Fine Arts category
Although Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained critically and popularly overlooked in favor of her representational subjects. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe pure emotion in her work. While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America’s first abstractionists. In addition to rethinking O’Keeffe’s role in the development of a uniquely American abstract style, this book chronicles the shifts and changes in subject matter and style over the span of her long career. It adds significant new insight into her life, reproducing excerpts of previously sealed letters written by O’Keeffe to photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. These previously unpublished letters, along with other primary documents referenced by the authors, offer an intimate glimpse into her creative method and intentions as an artist.
Barbara Haskell is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Barbara Buhler Lynes is Curator at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe. Bruce Robertson is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth Hutton Turner is Professor and Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia and Guest Curator at the Phillips Collection.
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Whitney Museum of American Art (9/17/09 – 1/17/10) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2/6/10 – 5/9/10) Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe (5/28/10 – 9/12/10) OTHER TITLES BY THIS EDITOR
  
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