Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - Art - 630 pages
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the 20th-century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. But behind O'Keeffe's bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. 23 years her senior. The relationship was physically and intellectually passionate, but Atieglitz was a man of the world. Driven to a nervous breakdown by Stieglitz's affair, O'Keefe relocated and redefined herself in New Mexico, where she created her unforgettable signature paintings. Stieglitz's longtime paramour - this biography offers an insight into O'Keefe's defining relationships and the effect of her husband's infidelity, and offers an honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth.

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Contents

Introduction
3
BEGINNING 18481917
9
BECOMING 19181946
155
BEING 19471986
419
Coda
545
Acknowledgments
549
Notes
553
Selected Bibliography
593
Index
603
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