Georgia OKeeffe, Roxana Robinson
Georgia OKeeffe, Roxana Robinson
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Georgia O'Keeffe
A Life

Author: Roxana Robinson

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 29 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2022


Synopsis

One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships—with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz.Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises that she painted with such command, are all the more remarkable when seen in the context of the struggle she waged between the rigorous demands of love and work.When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.As interest in O’Keeffe continues to grow among museum-goers and scholars alike, this book remains indispensable for understanding her life and art.

About Roxana Robinson

Roxana Robinson is an art historian and novelist and the author of ten books. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’s Choices. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, Tin House, and has been anthologized and broadcast on National Public Radio, and she is a recipient of both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships.

About Bernadette Dunne

Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ithinkican2 on April 10, 2009

This is a very important book to me. In 1995 I was going through a difficult time in my personal life and found that I was wallowing in self-consciousness and self-pity. I happened upon this biography during that time and found in Roxanna Robinson's depiction of Georgia O'Keefe a new definition of a......more

Goodreads review by Susan on May 29, 2017

A NYT Notable Book and often considered the best of the spate of O'Keeffe biographies that appeared in the early 1990s. Roxanna Robinson is a much-praised novelist (as of mid-2017, 5 novels, 3 story collections) and has a novelist's interpretive tendencies, which some readers may find intrusive. In......more

Goodreads review by Maja (majareads) on October 24, 2024

I’m in mourning over finishing this book. 😞💔💔💔💔......more

Goodreads review by Bob on April 21, 2020

This may have been the best art biography I have ever read. It read like a novel at times as well as art history lessons throughout. Georgia O’Keeffe was a fascinating soul with a passion for art and life. Each chapter of her life reflected a different facet of her artistic expression. Even though I......more

Goodreads review by Diane on February 07, 2010

Interesting, but some of the writing inconsistant......more


Quotes

“The best book ever written on O’Keeffe…An invaluable resource.” New Yorker

“A profoundly human treatment of O’Keeffe and all the people who figured prominently in her life.” Los Angeles Times

“Robinson’s comprehensive biography gives a vivid account of O’Keeffe’s remarkable artistic career.” Art Newspaper

“Chockablock with intriguing detail…It gives us the first sensible discussion of how photography influenced O’Keeffe’s painting—her closeups, wide angles, cropping, distortion of scale, and zooms.” Ms. Magazine

“The most comprehensive O’Keeffe biography to date, this essentially feminist reading convincingly builds its case from a wealth of sources…to explain less the woman-behind-the-myth than how and why the woman herself became myth-maker.” Kirkus Reviews

“Alternates with an absorbing, intimate narrative of O’Keeffe’s personal life (including her notorious relationship with Juan Hamilton, six decades her junior, and the public battle over her estate) to provide a resourceful, imaginatively rendered portrait of a dauntingly difficult subject.” Publishers Weekly