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Book SynopsisProvides the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources, Linda Grasso shows how and why feminism and O'Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular culture and scholarship.
Trade ReviewIn this engaging and provocative study, Linda M. Grasso positions Georgia O'Keeffe's identity and art making, her lived experiences and social/political allegiances, within the larger historical context of contested feminist politics in twentieth-century America. Combining a deeply researched discussion of the complexities of feminist movements in the US with biographical information drawn from an impressive array of primary sources, Grasso opens new possibilities for understanding and evaluating O'Keeffe's continuing but conflicted relationship with varied aspects of American feminist experience."" - Helen Langa, author of
Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York""Offers a fresh look at Georgia O'Keeffe and the multiple ways that feminism shaped her art, artistic identity, and career. Drawing from rich primary sources, including fan letters to O'Keeffe and media coverage of the artist, Linda M. Grasso demythologizes O'Keeffe's self-representation as a gender-transcendent great American modernist and gives us a picture of O'Keeffe's art as political and intricately connected to the feminist movements that shaped modernism and twentieth-century American culture."" - Donna Cassidy, author of
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
