O Keefe Georgia

Softcover, 96 pages, Basic Series



The art of American painter Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986) is splendid with colour and laden with hidden sensuality. OKeeffes name rests mainly on the large-format flower pictures that have assured her an unusual place in the annals of art, between realist and abstract. Our Basic Art Series study traces the idiosyncratic OKeeffes career, and numerous illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art.



The author:

Britta Benke (b. 1960) studied art history, classical archaeology and romance languages and literature in Gottingen, Munster and Bonn. Georgia OKeeffe is the main focus of her research and also the subject of her dissertation.



"She loves simplicity of form, caresses objects with her gaze … life and work merge, as this beautiful book demonstrates."

Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich