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Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
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Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'KeeffePortrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe Seaview Books, 1980 Book-of-the-Month, Quality Paperback Book Clubs Pocket Books/ University of New Mexico Press Blackstone Audio Books Published in Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Turkey Also Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe is included in Five Hundred Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide, Viking Penguin, 1995 "On Being O'Keeffe's First Biographer" by Laurie Lisle is included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon, Addison-Wesley, 1992 Book Reviews "Portrait of an Artist is a superb piece of work in every respect. Not only does it document the full scope to date of this remarkable 20th century life, but it does so directly, simply and objectively...Clearly journalist Lisle has scooped the art world with an impressive literary debut." James Idema, Smithsonian Magazine "What a personality emerges from these pages! Lisle provides us with fascinating details of the sort that immediately give life to her subject...Portrait of an Artist is filled with riches, and nearly every remark of Georgia's is worth recording." Joyce Carol Oates, Mademoiselle Portrait of an Artist is a sensitive and beautifully documented biography. It moved me deeply--I can't remember when a book involved me so totally." Patricia Bosworth, author "Laurie Lisle has given us a mortal Georgia O'Keeffe, whose human hungar and frailties, gifts and strengths, enabled her to survive--triumphantly--a conflicted life. Many readers will draw encouragement and even inspiration from this portrait." Eleanor Munro, author of Originals: American Women Artists "Portrait of an Artist is in many ways a remarkably informative book. Through interviews with O'Keeffe's friends and acquaintances, by delving into the published an unpublished sources and letters, Lisle has created a vivid and sensitive portrait of O'Keeffe as an artist and woman...she gives a fine and poignant accounting of the relationship between O'Keeffe and Stieglitz...Above and beyond the personal portrait, Lisle's biography is a marvelous evocation of the American places that have been important in the development of O'Keeffe's character and her art." James R. Mellow, The Saturday Review < |
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