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Georgia O'Keeffe's extraordinary still-life paintings -- of apples, leaves,
flowers, shells, trees, rocks, crosses, bones, and doors -- reinvented the
genre through a new language of color and form that synthesized Eastern
thought and a Western style of painting. This stunning book is the first
in-depth exploration of O'Keeffe's unique contribution to still-life
painting. The book presents an essay by Elizabeth Hutton Turner that
explores the formative influence of Arthur Wesley Dow and the unique
confluence of Eastern and Western thought in O'Keeffe's approach to objects.
It is followed by an essay by Marjorie Balge-Crozier that compares
O'Keeffe's invention in still life to academic practices and traditional
models in Western art. The essays are accompanied by beautiful full-page
reproductions of O'Keeffe's paintings as well as contextual photographs of
her studios, collections, and exhibition installations and related
historical and contemporary works. The book also provides an illustrated
chronology of O'Keeffe's life by Elsa Mezvinsky Smithgall. |
