O'Keeffe and Stieglitz : an American romance / Benita Eisler
by Eisler, Benita
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- ISBN 13
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New York : Doubleday : Penguin, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x,546p, [40]p of plates: ill; 25cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-534) and index. Contents: Prologue -- In flight from Eden -- The spell of the camera -- Artist in exile -- The will to art and the will to power -- Gone to look for America -- ""A great party and a great day"" -- ""The finest girl in Texas"" -- Mission impossible -- ""Woman supreme"" -- Show and tell -- Fortress America -- New beginnings -- ""The simple thing before us"" -- Alfred Stieglitz presents -- -- The long summer of '23 [1923] -- City lights -- High stakes -- Enter Mrs. Norman -- Up in Mabel's room -- A cathedral and a laboratory -- The powder room war -- A separate peace -- The empress of Abiquiu -- Notes. Partial contents Illustrations: Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe / Arnold Newman, 1942 -- From the window of 291 / Alfred Stieglitz -- Edward and Hedwig Werner Stieglitz, Alfred, his aunt, Rosa -- Paula, sun rays, Berlin / Alfred Stieglitz, 1889 -- Alfred Stieglitz and his daughter, Kitty / Edward Steichen, 1904-1905 -- Edward Steichen reading to Kitty / 1905 -- Mary Rapp / Alfred Stieglitz -- Mabel Dodge [Luhan] -- Dorothy True / Alfred Stieglitz, 1919 -- Paul Strand / Alfred Stieglitz, 1917 -- Georgia O'Keeffe / Alfred Stieglitz, 1918 -- Georgia O'Keeffe, after her return from New Mexico / Alfred Stieglitz, 1929 -- Marsden Hartley / Alfred Stieglitz -- Arthur G. Dove, [collected by Duncan Phillips] / Alfred Stieglitz, 1915 -- Charles Demuth / Alfred Stieglitz, 1922 -- John Marin / Alfred Stieglitz, 1922 -- Waldo Frank / Alfred Stieglitz, 1920 -- Sherwood Anderson / Alfred Stieglitz, 1923 -- Paul Rosenfeld / Alfred Stieglitz, 1922 -- Family portrait II / Florine Stettheimer, 1933 -- Katharine Rhoades / Edward Steichen -- Georgia Engelhard / Alfred Stieglitz, 1920 -- The shanty / Georgia O'Keeffe, 1922 -- Alfred at Lake George / Ida O'Keeffe, 1924 -- Rebecca Salsbury Strand / Alfred Stieglitz, 1922 -- Black abstraction / Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927 -- Slightly open shell / Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926 -- From my window at the Shelton, West / Alfred Stieglitz, 1931 -- East River from Shelton / Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927 -- Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, and Dorothy Brett, Taos, New Mexico, 1930s -- Jean Toomer and Marjorie Content Toomer, mid-1930s -- Tony Luhan / Ansel Adams, about 1930 -- Georgia O'Keeffe / Rebecca Strand, 1929 -- Calla lilies (Bert Savoy) / Charles Demuth, 1926 -- Single lily with red / Georgia O'Keeffe, 1928 -- Georgia O'Keeffe and Mrs. Chester Dale, late 1930s -- Alfred Stieglitz at An American Place, early 1940s -- Georgia O'Keeffe painting in her car, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico / Ansel Adams, 1937. Subjects: O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986. Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946. Artists United States; Biography. Photographers United States; Biography. Artists. Photographers. United States. America USA artists painting photography biography. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies. Illustrated. Summary: Provides a look at the artistic collaboration and romance between artist-painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer, art patron, and mentor Alfred Stieglitz.
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- Title
- O'Keeffe and Stieglitz : an American romance / Benita Eisler
- Author
- Eisler, Benita
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140170944
- ISBN 13
- 9780140170948
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday : Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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