henrismum's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Non-fiction
Audiobook (All of my entries on The Story Graph are audiobooks.)
Why I added this book to my TBR pile: I think I've had this on my shelf for ten years. (I'm talking my first Overdrive Account at the Buffalo Library.) I like learning about historic figures from different walks of life.
Will I read more by about this subject? Probably NotMaybe Definitely
Georgia O'Keeffe was a talented and pioneering woman, but I don't think I would like to meet her, which is good because she wouldn't care about me. She sounds like a typical pompous artist and the author was condescending and uppity as well. At times O'Keeffe wanted to be part of the common people, but she treated them like servants and was rude to most of the rich society people who wanted to know her.
The narrator was Grace Conlin. She read the book well.
Source: Los Angeles Library
Audiobook (All of my entries on The Story Graph are audiobooks.)
Why I added this book to my TBR pile: I think I've had this on my shelf for ten years. (I'm talking my first Overdrive Account at the Buffalo Library.) I like learning about historic figures from different walks of life.
Will I read more by about this subject? Probably Not
Georgia O'Keeffe was a talented and pioneering woman, but I don't think I would like to meet her, which is good because she wouldn't care about me. She sounds like a typical pompous artist and the author was condescending and uppity as well. At times O'Keeffe wanted to be part of the common people, but she treated them like servants and was rude to most of the rich society people who wanted to know her.
The narrator was Grace Conlin. She read the book well.
Source: Los Angeles Library
aroseshaw's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This is an in-depth biography of Georgia O'keeffe's life, from her family's background through her whole artistic career. This biography mostly glosses over her life past her late 60s.
I enjoy art but I am by no means an art enthusiast and I am not artistically talented at all. So I knew Georgia O'keeffe was a famous artist at a time when women weren't recognized for much and that she painted flowers and the southwestern landscape. I found this biography interesting, mostly because Georgia was an interesting person. I like that she was a woman who did her own thing but not sure I think of her as a particularly good person. Although the book was dry at times I learned a lot and had fun looking up some of the highlighted paintings.
I enjoy art but I am by no means an art enthusiast and I am not artistically talented at all. So I knew Georgia O'keeffe was a famous artist at a time when women weren't recognized for much and that she painted flowers and the southwestern landscape. I found this biography interesting, mostly because Georgia was an interesting person. I like that she was a woman who did her own thing but not sure I think of her as a particularly good person. Although the book was dry at times I learned a lot and had fun looking up some of the highlighted paintings.
fictionista's review against another edition
3.0
I always have a hard time slugging through non fiction, but this was a solid read, and I found out that O'Keeffe was more than just a painter of Freudian images....
clairewords's review against another edition
5.0
I read this book a long time ago, after first seeing some of the works of Georgia O'Keefe at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. I remember it being a wonderful feeling, something in her paintings resonated at a deep level, I didn't understand it, but I felt it and thus began a curious exploration into her life and works.
I remember this now, because her name has begun to pop up on my radar again, first with this novel [b:Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe|25852871|Georgia A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe|Dawn Tripp|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1444240304s/25852871.jpg|45720716] due for publication in Feb 2016 and then recently the discovery of a major retrospective of her work, planned from Jul 6 to Oct 30 at the Tate Modern in London, 100 years after her New York debut.
I remember this now, because her name has begun to pop up on my radar again, first with this novel [b:Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe|25852871|Georgia A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe|Dawn Tripp|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1444240304s/25852871.jpg|45720716] due for publication in Feb 2016 and then recently the discovery of a major retrospective of her work, planned from Jul 6 to Oct 30 at the Tate Modern in London, 100 years after her New York debut.