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- A thorough and consice overview of O'Keeffe's flowers.
- O'Keeffe has a unique way of capturing the beauty of flowers
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One Hundred Flowers
Georgia O'Keeffe
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ASIN: 067973323X
Release Date: 1990-10-24 |
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Customer Reviews:
"It's your world, for a moment".......2005-08-21
So said O'Keefe in describing what it's like to hold a flower and really to look at it.
O'Keefe managed to convey some of that wonder in paint. She grew them to huge size, setting them at or above human scale. She drew them in scorching colors, like "Poppy" or "Oriental poppy," or in stark lights and darks ("Jimson weed" and "Black hollyhock"). She displayed them with human passion, possibly drawing parallels between a plant's organs of regeneration and a human's ("Red canna" and "Yellow sweet peas"). Whatever you see in these - and different people will see differently - they are monumental presentations of something we think of as small and delicate. By itself, that's a message: the big and the small are equals in the world, when considered at their proper scale.
Maybe it's not fair to O'Keefe's ouvre to isolate one part of it like this - she preferred to show her work with a better balance of subjects and styles. These wonderful paintings deserve attention of their own, though. Some of the paintings are up to six feet tall and seven wide - even at 12"x10", book can't capture the full drama of the work. Still, it's an amazing collection.
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Just too small.......1999-12-20
While the pictures are wonderful, for an aging dinosaur like myself they are just too small. It is very hard to see the pictures!
Would have given it 10 stars if it was just a larger book. Some of the flowers are only one inch high, much too small for me to appreciate the detail.
Where can we find this in an 8.5 x 11 version?
A thorough and consice overview of O'Keeffe's flowers........1999-08-01
A picture is worth a thousand words; and one hundred pictures that happen to be O'Keeffe's are priceless. The works accurately portray the artist's keen eye for the beauty found in the smallest of mother earth's gifts: the flower. The book is an overall thorough and concise summary of the artist's most prized achievements.
O'Keeffe has a unique way of capturing the beauty of flowers.......1999-04-05
O'Keeffe can magnify the beauty of flowers magically in her paintings. Her perception allows the everyday art lover to escape into God's garden and visualize the serenity found in heaven.
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- never too many books of O'Keeffe paintings
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Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern
Charles C. Eldredge
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
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ASIN: 0300055811 |
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This magnificent book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Eldredge discovers for example, O'Keeffe's connection to the Transcendentalist tradition in American thought, and her relationship to America's awakening enthusiasm for Freudian theorizing and feminine self-revelation. He also describes O'Keeffe's modernity, her innovative readiness to push her art toward abstraction and serial art.
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never too many books of O'Keeffe paintings.......1998-08-07
This is the catalog for an international exhibition that was shown in England, Mexico, and Japan. Eldredge offers an interesting, readable, brief biography of the artist and a thoughtful, coherent discussion of the paintings in the exhibit, most of which are reproduced as full-page color plates. Arguably the most important among American artists, there can never be too many books of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.
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- Was Georgia really so bad?
- digs for dirt at the expense of art, but is a fun read
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O'Keefe: The Life of an American Legend
Jeffrey Hogrefe
Manufacturer: Bantam
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ASIN: 0553565451
Release Date: 1994-01-01 |
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Was Georgia really so bad?.......2004-09-06
It's incredible how much less fun a biography is to read when the author seems to hate his or her subject. Why would they choose to spend hours and hours of research on somebody if they don't think that the person is worth it? It must be some sort of competition.
I found myself frequently thinking back to the Frida Kahlo bio written by Hayden Herrera. In that, the biographer's admiration for the artist was infectious, and was based on her body of work, which was illustrated throughout the book. But in this case, there are hardly any reproductions, because the writer concentrates on gossip and O'keeffe's shortcomings.
However, the biography is very thorough and addictive in a guilty pleasure sort of way.
digs for dirt at the expense of art, but is a fun read.......2002-06-29
This is a good book, but the author does not seem to like either O-Keeffe or her husband Stieglitz. He covers their art a bit but without enthusiasm and instead seems to target their personal foibles and sexual peccadillos, which were many and indeed strange. This is valid reporting and ceratinly covers a necessary part of the story, but after a while it gets boring. However, in many sections the author speculates in strange ways on details of their intimate life that cannot be known, such as positiing that the origin of O'Keeffe's "discreet lesbianism" came from cryptically documented (hence essentially unprovable) sexual molestation as a child. If you want to look at the art, you have to go elsewhere. I enjoyed this as a vacation book but did not learn much from it beyond gossip.
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Birth of the Cool: American Painting from Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool : German Edition
Bice Curiger
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Birth of the Cool?.......2000-04-24
Miles Davis gave us "Birth of the cool" at the time of the 'triumph of American painting', but the connection to 'cool' becomes stretched beyond this timely coincidence. The name of Miles Davis is the greatest presence of black art in a book about visual art not music. The title sounds good, the art inside is arguably among the best of this century, and the discussion within the interviews is engaging - but it is difficult to connect them to "Cool". And the picture of Andy Warhol with Miles Davis doesn't help. Yes, it is "cool" that most of my favorite artists are represented within these covers, but I don't think that was the point. But don't let the awkward title dissuade you. The artists collected for the text do represent the greatness of individuals, not movements or styles, in the 20th century. These individuals represent an emergence of a new "individualist" movement in this century. The author is on to something but it is not yet cool enough to be Jello. Oldsters such as Pollock, O'Keefe, and Newman and the persistent such as Celmins, Katz, and Morley are combined with artists such as Prince, Taaffe, Williams and Wool who were born years after Miles' cool album was cut. But they all belong together because of their uniqueness, specific individual focus and inquisitiveness. Each is at the head of individual directions that may become movements some day. Their work is beautiful and thoughtful, and in some cases a spiced with a bit of mischief. Cool? Hot? Within the interviews, even the artists themselves cannot come to an agreement about that. But the book is cool because it does contain words and images from 15 of the hottest individual contributors to the latest directions art has taken in the 20th century.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
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23 postcards of O'Keeffe's enormously popular and sensational flowers taken from the 1987 publication of GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: 100 FLOWERS.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Canyon Suite
Georgia O'Keeffe , and
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28 Watercolors.......2001-06-06
Georgia O'Keeffe always said that she was impatient with visual clutter; that she wanted to get rid of details that got in the way of real meanings; and that abstract painting could deal with concepts, emotions, and ideas. The GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: CANYON SUITE watercolors are in fact among the earliest U.S. abstract art painted directly from nature. They include abstract images of natural phenomena, such as "Abstraction, Black and Blue," with lightning bolts and rain sheets through darkened sky and ground, "First Light on the Plains," with light haloing through the fuchsia and indigo night, "Gray Abstraction (Train/Desert)," with former motion stilled in trails against the sky, and "Light Coming on the Plains," with Japanese brushed color tones dragged spectacularly down by gravity and water; recognizable subject matter, such as "Red House/Fence & Door" and her rare "Standing Nude," with the body invaded by the background colors and therefore like one of Auguste Rodin's blurred watercolor nudes; and traditional landscapes, such as "Blue Hills," "Dark Mesa," and "Purple Mountain." Editor Barbara J. Bloemink's text gives helpful background to understanding the artist and the color plates, and to reading Benita Eisler's O'KEEFFE AND STIEGLITZ and Roxana Robinson's GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. The same interest in colors and shapes, but differently treated, shows through FRIDA KAHLO's art, particularly in the books by Hayden Herrera, Raquel Tibol, and Martha Zamora.
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- inviting but not satisfying
- Insightful, scholarly, and accessible
- well-reviewed feminist art criticism
- disappointing account of three artists
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Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
Anne Middleton Wagner
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This original and sharply obser-vant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American modernism: the avant-garde of the 1920s, the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s, and the modernist redefinition undertaken in the 1960s. Their artistic contributions were invaluable, Wagner demonstrates, as well as hard-won. She also shows that the fact that these artists were women--the main element linking the three--is as much the index of difference among their art and experience as it is a passkey to what they share.
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inviting but not satisfying.......2002-08-09
I picked up this book after seeing the Hesse retrospective in San Francisco. Although it provides a lot of useful background, the reading the art are somehow too pat. I guess it is a problem to always refer to the artist's life, however fascinating, to explain their work? And the 'feminist' framework did seem forced -- the photos were very suggestive but the author seemed afraid to really go for it. Why is so much academic writing afraid to make a strong argument or provocative, unexpected analysis?
Insightful, scholarly, and accessible.......2000-12-18
One is reluctant to criticize the reviews of other customers, yet the two reviews prior to mine attempt to force upon Wagner's book both an historical framework and a point of view that are outside of her intended goal. If one reads the book for what it is, one finds a work of analytical insight, scholarship, humanity, and understanding of historical context. Enjoy it, savor it, reflect upon it!
well-reviewed feminist art criticism.......1999-09-26
Everyone who reviewed it seemed to love this overview of the careers of 3 artists: Krasner, Hesse. It's a fun read, with great photos, but I wish art historians would start to see there's more to the sixties than Hesse: what about Agnes Martin, Lee Bontecou, Yoko Ono, Alison Knowles, and all the rest??
Wagner wants to be a good feminist, but ultimately, her approach is surprisingly traditional: canonical figures, marriage plot, sticks to the US, the known and alrady successful. Wants to avoid being "radical" or disturbing at all costs.
disappointing account of three artists.......1999-09-26
Wagner presents 3 kay artists but her analysis is thin -- after 200+ pages, we get to the conclusion that "altho gender doesn't entirely determine our lives, it does inflect them..." or something like that. Seems to be totally unaware of feminist work on modernism in other fields (ie lit, film) and never questions the whole "marriage" (heterosexuality) framework she sets up. As a trade press book, it'd be fine, but as a university press book -- seems thin, uninformed.
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Skin to Skin: Eroticism in Dress
Prudence Glynn
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In his third Citizen Dog collection, the talented cartoonist Mark O'Hare provides another glimpse into the entertaining world of Fergus the Dog and Cuddles The Cat. Along with assorted other pals - including a vulnerable human named Mel - this pair share their unique perspectives and adventurous exploits.
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Citizen Dog Rules.......2007-05-29
This is one of the best Citizen Dog books ever printed. Each and every page either brings a chuckle or a full laugh out loud roar. I seriously advise you to read this one.
Gayle Waters
Fergus is Da Man, er, Dog!.......2004-04-14
Another great book of Citizen Dog strips from Mark O'Hare. Though this volume seems to devote quite a few pages to Cuddles the Cat, that doesn't detract from the essential "dogginess" of the collection. Frankly, it might even enhance it. Depicting Cuddles as the rather timid and hapless feline that he is only serves to magnify Fergus' robust, spirited, intelligent, charming, and confident canine nature. More than a bunch of comics, this book is a fabulous tribute to Fidos everywhere. I highly recommend that you get a copy for your favorite dog. (You're sure to enjoy it also!)
M is For Missing Mark O'Hare (not to mention Fergus and Mel).......2001-09-27
I was so happy to find that Citizen Dog had finally made it to the status of a cartoon book -- I had missed it terribly after moving from the St. Paul area and have been on a start-and-stop letter-writing campaign to my local paper, repeatedly advising them to add this great little cartoon to their selection. (They never listened, unfortunately).
I had first seen Citizen Dog in The St. Paul Pioneer Press when I lived in nearby Inver Grove Heights, between 1996-1998. It was an hysterical cartoon. In it Fergus (the dog) and Mel (his human), are amazing equals, which I think expressed the closeness one can have with a pet. But I doubt Mr. O'Hare intended that-- it seems more of a natural evolution of the characters.
All I know is that it wasn't that surprising to find Fergus the driver and Mel the passenger in the car. Or, in one memorable instance, Mel chastizing Fergus for setting up Cuddles (the local cat and perennial target of jokes) by loosening the shaker of salt at the diner just prior to his joining them.
The situations they confronted were forever filled with mundane eccentricity -- like Fergus and Cuddles walking up to the Drive-Thru and, when Fergus explains to Cuddles, "you order anything you want here." Cuddles proceeds to ask for, "World Peace."
I was sad to hear that Mark O'Hare no longer draws Citizen Dog. There is only what is contained in this and his other books now. We'll miss you Mark. . . and Mel. . . .and, especially, Fergus.
Another winner for fans of Mel and Fergus.......2000-06-01
Mark O'Hare continues his string of hilarious collections of the misadventures of Fergus, Mel, Cuddles, Bruno, and Fluffy. The humor is sly and mischievious. There are plenty of recognizable situations and far out extrapolations. For folks who enjoy a daily giggle via the comics, I highly recommend this collection, as well as the previous two books.
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If puritanism is, as H.L. Mencken once said, the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy, then this glorious, monumental collection by one of England's most popular humorists is a puritan's nightmare. Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th century, but with material dating
back to Columbus, Frank Muir has packed this volume with enough joy and laughter to sink the Mayflower.
The range of comic material is amazing--from the gentle, charming comedy of manners, to biting satire, to outrageous parody. There are excerpts from the novels of Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse and Mark Twain, complete short stories by O. Henry and Frank O'Connor, classic tall tales from
Australia (including one by "Banjo" Patterson, who also wrote "Waltzing Matilda"), passages from Groucho Marx's correspondence with Warner Brothers, newspaper columns written by Art Buchwald and Myles na Gopaleen (the novelist Flann O'Brien), a selection of Samuel Johnson's comic definitions, plus a
sprinkling of egregious puns, witty sayings, and even the clever names of stores (such as the New York restaurant "Just for the Halibut" and the London beauty parlor "Curl Up and Dye"). Muir has gathered work from over two hundred writers and from every English-speaking country. Virtually all of
your favorites are here: Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne, Anita Loos, Ring Lardner, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Damon Runyon, Fran Lebowitz, Joseph Heller, Evelyn Waugh, Garrison Keilor, Erma Bombeck, Tom Wolfe, and countless
others. In addition, there are comic pieces from writers you wouldn't expect to find--such as Thomas Hardy or Lawrence Durrell--and many many writers you may not have discovered yet, such as Jerome K. Jerome or Daisy Ashford (who wrote an unintentionally hysterical novel at age nine, which she
published in her thirties).
Frank Muir is one of Britain's best-loved humorists, the host of a highly popular television show and the prolific author of dozens of hilarious books, including the best-selling The Frank Muir Book. Here he provides not only a painfully funny collection, but also generous introductions to
each writer, which are comic gems in themselves. Except for the occasional puritan, this is a book that everyone will enjoy.
Customer Reviews:
CUI BONO?.......2005-11-15
This book of humorous snippets is at least selected by Frank Muir, which makes a change from John Carey. Frank Muir is an elegant and extremely witty and ingenious virtuoso of the English himself, but I still have to wonder what the possible purpose can be of a farrago of miscellaneous excerpts from different authors. I could have understood collecting a nosegay of the witticisms of some particular writer or of some specific school of writing, but this lengthy tome takes in Smollett, Goldsmith, Poe, Jerome K Jerome, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh and Beryl Bainbridge, to name but a few. The most astonishing absentee is Oscar Wilde, but some of Bernard Shaw's musical, theatrical and artistic reviews are here. I welcome those thoroughly, as I do the excerpt from a review by Macaulay, but where, I wonder, is A E Housman, whose excoriations of his fellow scholars surpass either of them not only in forcefulness but for sheer hilarity. Otherwise the roll-call of the humorous includes many who are predictable, in no adverse sense. I would certainly have expected to find Dorothy Parker, H L Mencken and Mark Twain, for instance, and so I do. Not all the items chosen are from specific authors - the satirical magazine Private Eye is represented, partly by Auberon Waugh under his own name but also by the spoof diaries and letters of the prime ministerial spouses Mrs Wilson and Mr Thatcher, which are anonymous and may be co-operative efforts. Certain other press series are officially under nicknames, but we all know that Beachcomber in the Daily Express was J B Morton, and that Myles Na Gopaleen of the Irish Times is Brian O Nuallain (aka O'Nolan). The authorship of the Peter Simple column in the Daily Telegraph changed from Colin Welch to Michael Wharton, and not to its advantage in general, but the excerpts here are actually the funniest things that I spotted in the whole book, and I imagine they are the work of the former. His maverick right-wing politics are not my own, but I used to find his stuff irresistible. Other contributors are not household names, possibly not even in their own households, but I would certainly have expected such eminent men of letters as Muir himself and the syndics of the Oxford University Press to have known among them that Humphry Berkeley spelt his first name thus and not `Humphrey'.
In general don't expect to roll in too many aisles. This is an anthology of good-quality humorous prose, not a book of gag-lines and one-liners. You may spot here and there, as I did, the occasional piece that is to your particular liking, whether a treasured recollection or even, if we are lucky, something new to us. I was never much of an enthusiast for Punch in general (except when it was edited by Muggeridge) nor of Basil Boothroyd in particular, but I applaud heartily his scathing comments on the programme-notes of a classical concert he attended, and the poke in the eye he administers not so much to Beethoven himself as to his hagiographers who have done so much to distort people's view of music in general. This was a lucky find - I do not pretend to have read the whole massive book nor do I ever propose to do so, nor indeed can I imagine who ever will. I still fail completely to envisage the readership of a work like this, and I would guess its future belongs mainly on the shelves of the more traditionally-minded libraries and in the hands of browsers in second-hand bookshops searching for curiosities.
Alas, Muir probably had no option but to contribute a preface devoted to the doomed enterprise of trying to define and categorise humour. I find such stuff virtually unreadable, but for all I know it may have value to earnest students of Eng Lit and their instructors, if that is any word for them. I hope they paid Muir well for it, because if they were going to set about such a fatuous project as this in the first place they were lucky to have him. It is all good quality, I make no bones about that. I make a whole ossiary of bones about putting out such a ridiculous publication to begin with, but making allowance for personal prejudice and individual temperament I can, and perhaps ought to, award it four stars.
A Classic Text...the perfect place to begin an education.......2004-03-23
Key words in the title: humorous prose. Sure, by sticking to prose, Muir had to eliminate comic masters like W.S. Gilbert, , Preston Sturges, the Pythons, & Bernard Shaw (actually, some of Shaw's great criticism makes it in). But when it comes to humorous prose, this book is the Grand Tour. For the time period it covers, this book has everything. I guarantee you'll discover a new favorite author within a week of buying this tome (and that's the highest purpose of an anthology - giving the reader a new favorite). Muir's editorial introductions and insertions are both enlightening and entertaining, and the man's genuine love of the form shines through in each passage. My only complaint? The book needs updating. Add a hundred pages, and stick in stuff from Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Carl Hiaasen, Tom Robbins, David Lodge, even Helen Fielding. Aside from that, the book is perfect. May a higher power bless Muir for doing such a great and important service to both the readers of this anthology and the writers whose work fills its pages.
An Eye-Opening Survey Of English-Language Humor.......1998-04-09
An astonishing tour of 400 years of laughs from the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Not just the greats like Wodehouse, Twain, and Garrison Keillor but brilliant (but now forgotten) writers, plus cult favorites like Auberon Waugh, Stella Gibbons and P.J. O'Rourke. Highly recommended.
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