Name: Equal under the Sky By Linda M. Grasso
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Equal under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism by Linda M. Grasso

Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources such as fan letters, archives of women's organizations, transcripts of women's radio shows, and programs from women's colleges, Linda M. Grasso shows how and why feminism and O'Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular culture and scholarship. The women's movements that impacted the creation and reception of O'Keeffe's art, Grasso argues, explain why she is a national icon who is valued for more than her artistic practice.

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In this engaging and provocative study, Linda M. Grasso positions Georgia O'Keeffe's identity and art making, her lived experiences and social/political allegiances, within the larger historical context of contested feminist politics in twentieth-century America. Combining a deeply researched discussion of the complexities of feminist movements in the US with biographical information drawn from an impressive array of primary sources, Grasso opens new possibilities for understanding and evaluating O'Keeffe's continuing but conflicted relationship with varied aspects of American feminist experience. - Helen Langa, author of Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

Offers a fresh look at Georgia O'Keeffe and the multiple ways that feminism shaped her art, artistic identity, and career. Drawing from rich primary sources, including fan letters to O'Keeffe and media coverage of the artist, Linda M. Grasso demythologizes O'Keeffe's self-representation as a gender-transcendent great American modernist and gives us a picture of O'Keeffe's art as political and intricately connected to the feminist movements that shaped modernism and twentieth-century American culture. - Donna Cassidy, author of Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

About Linda M. Grasso

Linda M. Grasso is a professor of English at York College and of liberal studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the author of The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860.

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Title

Equal under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism by Linda M. Grasso

Author

Linda M. Grasso

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Paperback

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Year published

2019-03-15

Number of pages

336

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Equal under the Sky Linda M. Grasso

Equal under the Sky by Linda M. Grasso

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