Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu - Couverture rigide

Lynes, Barbara Buhler; Lopez, Agapita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1419703943 ISBN 13 : 9781419703942

Editeur : Abrams, 2012

Synopsis

Les deux maisons de Georgia O'Keeffe au Nouveau-Mexique - à Abiquiu et Ghost Ranch - sont des éléments essentiels de ses peintures, mais leur histoire n'a jamais été détaillée auparavant. Citant abondamment les lettres de l'artiste, Barbara Buhler Lynes et Agapita Judy Lopez créent une image vibrante d'O'Keeffe (1887-1986) et de ses maisons, qui ont longtemps intrigué le public. Un essai de l'architecte Beverly Spears décrit les caractéristiques distinctives de la construction en pisé. Les illustrations abondantes comprennent des photographies réalisées spécialement pour ce livre montrant les maisons telles qu'elles sont aujourd'hui, des photographies d'O'Keeffe chez elle par de grands photographes, et ses peintures des maisons et des paysages qui les entourent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Buhler Lynes is curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. She is the author of many publications, including Abrams' Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Highlights from the Collection and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections.

Agapita Judy Lopez is director of Abiquiú Historic Properties and rights and reproductions manager for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. She worked for Georgia O'Keeffe from 1974 until the artist's death in 1986.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Georgia O'Keeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the landscapes around them became essential elements in her paintings. The mountains and arroyos, the skulls and the Jimson weeds, a ladder against a wall, a door; all transformed by her genius into a quintessentially American art. Astonishingly, the history of these houses has never before been written. In this volume, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Agapita Judy Lopez create a vibrant picture of O'Keeffe at home. Drawing on O'Keeffe's correspondence, Lynes and Lopez set forth their fascinating story. An essay by architect Beverly Spears describes the distinctive characteristics of adobe architecture and its construction, and the many individuals involved with the house are identified. An appendix provides valuable information about the materials used in resorting the Abiquiu house. Photographs made especially for this book show the houses as they are today, plus dozens of photographs made by major photographers during her life show her living in the houses. Photographs of her painting and specific architectural components of the Abiquiu house are also included. These photographs and their accompanying texts offer for the first time a compelling picture of O'Keeffe's life in New Mexico, how each house satisfied different aspects of the artist's personal and professional needs and how O'Keeffe gradually transformed these Spanish Pueblo Revival style houses to reflect her modernist aesthetic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abrams
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1419703943
• ISBN 13: 9781419703942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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