Georgia O'Keeffe: And the Eros of Place

by Bram Dijkstra

Book Overview

Georgia O'Keeffe has long been recognized as one of America's most adventurous early modernist artists. But critics often suggest that she became a revolutionary despite her American background, not because of it. Bram Dijkstra challenges that point of view. In this searching reappraisal of O'Keeffe's work, the distinguished cultural historian shows that her art was decisively shaped by the America in which she grew up. In doing so, he casts new light...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015627
• ISBN13: 9780691015620
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

fine book, horrid photographs

This is a most interesting treatment of O'Keefe, Modernism, gender, and place. I began the book with misgivings -- I don't always like Dijkstra -- but this is useful, interesting, and a pleasure to read. One caveat -- like many books written about art by non-art historians, the reproductions are scandalously bad. I had to check out two (2) books from the library to make sense of the paintings. This is undoubtedly not Dijkstra's fault, but the fault of the Press. The only decent reproduction (the only one in color) is on the DUSTJACKET! Oh, well, what can we say.