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Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe | 
 enlarge | Author: Hunter Drohojowska-philp
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 206775
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 16
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0393327418
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780393327410
ASIN: 0393327418
Publication Date: November 14, 2005
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B"The definitive life of O'Keeffe."#151;Hilton Kramer, ILos Angeles Times/I/BBRBRGeorgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth 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. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth. BRBRWhen she was still unknown as an artist, O'Keeffe married Alfred Stieglitz, twenty-three years her senior and well established as a pioneer in art photography. The relationship was physically and intellectually passionate, but Stieglitz was a man of the world. Through the author's access to previously unavailable materials#151;including interviews with Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz's longtime paramour#151;we are offered new knowledge about O'Keeffe's defining relationships and the effect of her husband's infidelity. Driven to a nervous breakdown by the Norman affair, O'Keeffe relocated and redefined herself in New Mexico, where she created her unforgettable signature paintings. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations, 32 color plates.
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 How On Earth Did This Get Published? September 7, 2008
barbara rhodes (british columbia)
How did the writer convince anyone to publish this poor rendition of drivel? Her English is appalling, she jumps all over the time line and doesn't introduce people throughout the book. Given that I have read ever other book on Ms. O'Keefe I really think this one was a complete waste of time.
 Excellent information regarding Georgia's life March 3, 2007
Sharon Shirin (Aurora, Colorado)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well written book and excellent research. Enjoyed very much.
Tremendous and important detail lacking in other biographies June 20, 2006
B. Horrigan (MA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Detailed and thoughtful, and a riveting read if you really want to understand this artist's life. After reading dozens of books and articles about O'Keeffe during the course of my own research on New York-inspired artwork, I didn't think another O'Keeffe biography was necessary. But I'm grateful I found this book. I learned so much more about this artist--about her friendships, her travels beyond New York and the Southwest, and her abstract works.
Gave me a new appreciation for O'Keeffe's art June 28, 2005
Sally Lehman (Gresham, Oregon USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I never really liked O'Keeffe's more abstract paintings until I read this biography. Now I can look at them with an improved understanding of what they mean and what she managed to accomplish for female artists everywhere. It's equally nice to see the artist as a person with her own foibles and nuances. The author has done a remarkable job here.
More than you ever wanted to know about Georgia O'Keeffe June 6, 2005
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a sound writer, one who obviously does her research inexhaustibly, and with a background in art criticism she also speaks with authority and an informed eye. But she does go on.... br / br /For those who want to know more about the idiosyncrasies of this American idol then this is the resource of choice. We learn more about the frustrations, self doubt, love affairs, and general personality quirks than in all the other biographies combined. We also learn about each painting in depth which I suppose is like a verbal catalogue raissonne and for that we should be thankful. br / br /It is just that with all great artists not everything they make is of show quality and it is this inclusion of all of the odds and major ends of O'Keeffe's work that borders on tiresome. It is with a good degree of relief that the last page of this nearly 500-page opus is reached. br / br /Hunter Drohojowska-Philp obviously holds Georgia O'Keeffe in a realm close to Valhalla and that is all well and good. She writes with vigor and determination and certainly informs us of the 'full bloom' of her title. In the end this is a valuable volume for the archives, but not a book to recommend for the casual reader who has already grown visually fatigued with the Santa Fe posters of poppies, ox skulls, and datura flowers. Grady Harp, June 05 br /
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