The Phaidon Focus series presents engaging, up to date introductions to art s 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 artist s life and career, interspersed throughout with one page "Focus" essays examining specific bodies of work.
In Georgia O Keeffe, professor and award winning author Randall Griffin offers a fresh and insightful account of one of the twentieth century s most iconic artists. O Keeffe 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.