Weekends With O'Keeffe - Rilegato

Merrill, C. S.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0826349285 ISBN 13: 9780826349286

Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2010

Riassunto

In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe hired C.S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting. Over seven years, Merrill was called upon for secretarial assistance, cooking, and personal care for the artist. Merrill's journals reveal details of the daily life of a genius. The author describes how O'Keeffe stretched the canvas for her twenty-six-foot cloud painting and reports on O'Keeffe's favorite classical music and preferred performers. Merrill provided descriptions of nature when she and the artist went for walks; she read to O'Keeffe from her favorite books and helped keep her space in meticulous order, so important for someone going blind.

Merrill includes sketches of O'Keeffe's studio and an account of once assisting O'Keeffe at the easel as well as reports on how Stieglitz preserved his own photographs and an account of Laura Gilpin photographing O'Keeffe in the painter's Abiquiu studio. Jockeying for position among the helpers O'Keeffe relied upon was part of daily life at Abiquiu, where territorial chows guarded the property. Visitors came from far and wide, among them Eliot Porter and even Allen Ginsberg accompanied by Peter Orlovsky. All this is revealed in Merrill's straightforward and deeply respectful notes. To read her book is like spending a weekend with O'Keeffe in the incomparable light and clear air of Northern New Mexico mountains and desert.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

C.S. Merrill works as librarian at Kewa Pueblo School and Cochiti Pueblo School.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"This is a book that deserves to be read for the insights it offers into the daily life of the complex and gifted O'Keeffe; for the love (I am tempted to write "adoration") that the artist inspired in those around her; and for the evolving and increasingly mature perceptions of the young poet who recorded her observations with such a sustained and clear-eyed focus."--Story Circle Book Reviews

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826349285
• ISBN 13: 9780826349286
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 238