As an outstanding figure in the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe, like few other artists, forms an amalgam of her works and person. That amalgam contains many interfaces--the great tales of the emergence of Modernism, of America's cultural self-discovery, of the first trials and tribulations of the magical power of creating a media self, of the stirring paths towards female emancipation, but also of the many appropriations and omissions of art history which distance in time has now made clearer...

Bice Curiger

Carter Ratcliff

Peter J. Schneemann

Aniela Schacher

Brenda Richardson

6 Acknowledgments

7 Foreword

11 Holding Up the Sky

29 Georgia O"Keeffe and "the Great American Thi

45 Explanations of Beauty

62 Catalogue

157 Biography

178 On the Spur of the Moment:

    Present-Day Artists

    on the Significance of Georgia O"Keeffe

    Maurizio Cattelan

    Pipilotti Rist

    Alex Katz

    Olivier Mosset

    Katharina Fritsch

    Mary Heilmann

    Jeff Koons

    Hans Stalder

    John Waters

    Roni Horn

    Robert Wilson

    Peter Suter

    Robert Colescott

    Carroll Dunham

    Laurie Simmons

    Elizabeth Murray

192 Exhibition Checklist

196 Selected Bibliography

198 Photo Credits

199 Contributors