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128 pages, Hardcover
Published April 16, 2021
The bones do not symbolize death to me. They are shapes that I enjoy ... They please me. And I enjoy them very much in relation to the sky. But it's very easy to always be having a bone with a blue hole in it. So I have a reddish bone with a yellow sky. And that isn't too bad either. Although the best are the ones that have turned white from the sun. They were most wonderful against the blue ... that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. - extract from a letter by Georgia O'Keeffe, quoted in this book.I've read several books about the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and some of the related photo albums by her husband Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), and I found that Maria Herreros captured her life and spirit beautifully in the space of these 128 pages of minimal words with graphic novel art. The biographical authenticity is enhanced by the text using a considerable amount of quotes from O'Keeffe's own letters, primarily to Stieglitz, but also to others.


'I dont even care much about the approbation of the Art world—its politics stink.
I dont see that it matters too much—I'll be living out here in the sticks anyway—what is the difference whether I win or lose—I am a very small moment in time...'