Description for O'Keeffe
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 269 x 14. Weight in Grams: 580.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own unique vision, based on finding essential and abstract forms in nature. O'Keeffe's primary subjects were landscapes, flowers, and bones, each explored in successive series over several years. Certain works went on for decades, producing 12 or more variations of an original image. Among these, O'Keeffe's magnified pictures of calla lilies and irises are her most famous. Enlarging the tiniest petals to fill an entire canvas, ... Read more
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own unique vision, based on finding essential and abstract forms in nature. O'Keeffe's primary subjects were landscapes, flowers, and bones, each explored in successive series over several years. Certain works went on for decades, producing 12 or more variations of an original image. Among these, O'Keeffe's magnified pictures of calla lilies and irises are her most famous. Enlarging the tiniest petals to fill an entire canvas, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
TASCHEN
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836542319
SKU
V9783836542319
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Ref
99-1
About Britta Benke
Britta Benke studied art history, classical archaeology and romance languages in Gottingen, Munster and Bonn. Georgia O'Keeffe is the main focus of her research and also the subject of her thesis.
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