The Phaidon Focus series presents engaging, uptodate introductions to arts modern masters. Compact, affordable, and beautifully produced, the books in this growing series are written by top experts in their field. Each features a complete chronological survey of an artists life and career, interspersed throughout with onepage Focus essays examining specific bodies of work.
In Georgia OKeeffe, professor and awardwinning author Randall Griffin offers a fresh and insightful account of one of the twentieth centurys most iconic artists. OKeeffe fused nature with abstraction, the intimate with the monumental, and the corporeal with the cosmic to create a highly personal version of modernism. Her work remains a key component of American art and her influence as a pioneering female artist cannot be understated.
