Georgia O'Keeffe : circling around abstraction / essays by Jonathan Stuhlman and Barbara Buhler Lynes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: West Palm Beach, Fla. : Norton Museum of Art ; New York : Hudson Hills Press, Edition: 1st edDescription: 134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780943411491
  • 0943411491
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 759.13 22
LOC classification:
  • ND237.O5 A4 2007
  • N44.O64 O642 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Circling around abstraction -- Georgia O'Keeffe : identity and place -- Plates -- List of plates.
Summary: From the Publisher: 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.
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Published in connection with an exhibition held at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2007-2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Circling around abstraction -- Georgia O'Keeffe : identity and place -- Plates -- List of plates.

From the Publisher: 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.

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