Description
The definitive biography of one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.
About the Author
Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books: six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Lifewhich was nominated for the Charles Eldredge Prize for Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Best American Short Stories and Tin House. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. She lives in New York. roxanarobinson.com
Reviews
This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe and an invaluable reattribution not only for scholars but for the general public. It is accurate, insightful, and beautifully written * New Yorker *
This book radiates a subtle understanding of complex human relations and pulsates with a quiet dramatic power * Independent *
An ideal reader might start it without preconceptions about American painting generally, or O'Keeffe in particular. By the final page he should be hooked on both * Daily Telegraph *
Illuminating and fair-minded guide to the American art scene in the early and mid-twentieth century ... Above all, Robinson makes one aware of the amount of hard work, self-sacrifice and singleminded determination which went into O'Keeffe's long career * Financial Times *
Never have the controversial events and minutiae of O'Keeffe's life been presented so completely and even-handedly as in Roxana Robinson's Georgia O'Keeffe * Los Angeles Times *
Chockablock with intriguing detail, some apt insight, and best of all, O'Keeffe's own voice - in her letters and in the words of her family and friends who wouldn't talk to anyone before the artist's death at the age of 98 in 1986. It gives us the first sensible discussion of how photography influenced O'Keeffe's painting -her closeups, wide angles, cropping, distortion of scale, and zooms * Ms Magazine *
The most comprehensive O'Keeffe biography to date, this essentially feminist reading convincingly builds its case from a wealth of sources (some unavailable before her death) to explain less the woman-behind-the-myth than how and why the woman herself became myth-maker * Kirkus *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526625243
Author Roxana Robinson
Format Paperback
Page Count 720
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 1130g