Georgia O’Keeffe (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Georgia O’Keeffe
- First Published: 1976
- Time of Work: 1887–1972
- Setting: New York, New Mexico, and Texas
- Principal Characters: Georgia O’Keeffe, Alon Bement, Arthur Dow, Mabel Luhan, Alfred Stieglitz
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Arts
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Nature, Self, Autobiography, Art or artists, Creative process, Painting or painters
- Locales: New York, New Mexico, Texas
Form and Content
Georgia O’Keeffe is a unique autobiography—as unique as the artist herself. The work, which is not divided into chapters, presents beautiful, full-color reproductions of the paintings that O’Keeffe chose to represent her life’s work (many of which had never before been reproduced). These illustrations are accompanied by a narrative that unobtrusively weaves in and out of the reproductions. In this oversized volume, O’Keeffe supervised the design, chose the 108 color plates, and wrote approximately forty pages of narrative. At the end of the...
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