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Georgia O´Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
Barbara Buhler Lynes
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Description for Georgia O´Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
Hardback. When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. This book analyzes the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. It accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Num Pages: 144 pages, 66 color I plates. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 275 x 15. Weight in Grams: 996.
When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and around Alcalde, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch, with occasional excursions to remote sites she found particularly compelling. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, ... Read more
When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and around Alcalde, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch, with occasional excursions to remote sites she found particularly compelling. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691116594
SKU
V9780691116594
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About Barbara Buhler Lynes
Barbara Buhler Lynes is Curator, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and The Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of "Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne" and numerous other books about O'Keeffe. Lesley Poling-Kempes is an independent writer and historian currently at work on a book devoted to Ghost Ranch, 1900-1980. Frederick W. Turner, ... Read more
Reviews for Georgia O´Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
Winner of the 2005 Book Award in Fine Art, Independent Publisher Book Awards "The illustrations are beautifully reproduced, and the book's three essays are intelligent, carefully researched, and elegantly presented."
Roxana Robinson, The Wilson Quarterly "In her meticulous account, Lesley Poling-Kempes discusses the geophysical origins of this land of 'extremes and contrast,' analyzing the layered stone formations and matching them up ... Read more
Roxana Robinson, The Wilson Quarterly "In her meticulous account, Lesley Poling-Kempes discusses the geophysical origins of this land of 'extremes and contrast,' analyzing the layered stone formations and matching them up ... Read more