"""Music that makes holes in the sky"": Georgia O'Keefe's visionary romanticism"

"At the time of Georgia O'Keeffe's death in 1986, she was stereotyped as provincial American who was untouched by literary or intellectual stimuli, a ""frontier"" woman attached to nature by gender rather than philosophy. O'Keeffe's extraordinary abstractions and their sources remained largely unexplored in favor of of her more popular depictions of flowers, desert landscapes, and bones, and even these were not examined in the depth they deserved with respect to their content and sources. O'Keeffe herself attempted to direct attention from the depth of her interest in literature. Yet in her reading and in her friendships with writers, a multifaceted spirituality emerges as a recurring theme. It also seems to have provided a key stimulus for her revolutionary abstractions of the teens. Georgia O'Keeffe was a modern romantic, emphasizing individual experience, intensified emotional responses, an interest in the sublime, music, synaesthesia, and the irrational forces of nature, including human nature, much as nineteenth-century Romantic artists did."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Mitchell, Brenda Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Manthorne, Katherine

• Biography
• Art History
• Women's Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Mitchell, Brenda Marie

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591089097
AAI9702611
(UMI)AAI9702611

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22108