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Georgia O'Keeffe, an American icon.
GARRAUT Marie.

Georgia O'Keeffe, an American icon.

Hazan
€25,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 24040
Format 16 x 23.5
Détails 192 p., paperback.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782754111768
This biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, written by art historian Marie Garraut, is published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou from September 8 to December 6, 2021, which, for the first time in France, celebrates this unique artist, whose work is unclassifiable. "Feel America, live America, love America" is the mantra of the woman who, in her painting, gave this continent its own voice. Georgia O'Keeffe could be the heroine of an adventure novel or a western, so much did she embrace the legend of the New World. And Marie Garraut's story reads like a novel, retracing with the historian's rigor the trajectory of this ecologist before her time, a fierce incarnation of the emancipated woman and artist whose work continued to renew itself throughout the 20th century. The daughter of immigrants, born in Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) took her first steps as a successful painter in 1920s New York, where her romantic relationship with photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz made headlines. Her modern and distinctly American flower painting shook up the art world. In search of wide open spaces, O'Keeffe broke away from the city and chose New Mexico, her chosen land, to paint the very essence of this country: fiery skies, plateau and canyon landscapes, signs of an immemorial animal presence, and traces of Hispanic and Native American spirituality. The mastery of her life and the constant control of her image—she was photographed by the greatest artists of her time—paradoxically led Georgia O'Keeffe to a formidable space of freedom. Closed or open, small or immense, in the city or in the heart of nature, the artist knew how to construct "places of her own" which were as many grounds for reflection and creation.
This biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, written by art historian Marie Garraut, is published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou from September 8 to December 6, 2021, which, for the first time in France, celebrates this unique artist, whose work is unclassifiable. "Feel America, live America, love America" is the mantra of the woman who, in her painting, gave this continent its own voice. Georgia O'Keeffe could be the heroine of an adventure novel or a western, so much did she embrace the legend of the New World. And Marie Garraut's story reads like a novel, retracing with the historian's rigor the trajectory of this ecologist before her time, a fierce incarnation of the emancipated woman and artist whose work continued to renew itself throughout the 20th century. The daughter of immigrants, born in Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) took her first steps as a successful painter in 1920s New York, where her romantic relationship with photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz made headlines. Her modern and distinctly American flower painting shook up the art world. In search of wide open spaces, O'Keeffe broke away from the city and chose New Mexico, her chosen land, to paint the very essence of this country: fiery skies, plateau and canyon landscapes, signs of an immemorial animal presence, and traces of Hispanic and Native American spirituality. The mastery of her life and the constant control of her image—she was photographed by the greatest artists of her time—paradoxically led Georgia O'Keeffe to a formidable space of freedom. Closed or open, small or immense, in the city or in the heart of nature, the artist knew how to construct "places of her own" which were as many grounds for reflection and creation.