Letters Like The Day: On Reading Georgia O'keeffe [Paperback]

Georgia OKeeffe mistrusted words. She claimed color as her language. Nevertheless, in the course of her long life, the great American painter wrote thousands of lettersmore than two thousand survive between her and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, alone. Jennifer Sinors Letters Like the Day honors OKeeffe, her modernist landscapes, and, crucially, the value of letter writing. In the painters correspondence, we find an intimacy with words that is all her own. Taking her letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove OKeeffes art. Through magnification, cropping, and juxtapositionhallmarks of modernismSinor explores the larger truths at the center of OKeeffes work: how we see, capture, and create. Letters Like the Day pursues the highest function of artto take ones medium to the edge and then push beyond.