Making It New and Keeping It Old: Recasting Frameworks and Contexts in Georgia O’Keeffe Studies

Three recent Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition catalogues devise new interpretative frameworks and situate in contexts that are especially relevant to American Studies scholars interested visual culture, material gender studies, reception modernism. One places the company of other white women making modernist art early decades twentieth century; another provides critical interpretations acknowledge reject previous views were skewered by monolithic sexual lenses; a third moves into popular culture domains such as fashion, consumerism, interior design. Raising questions about how curators present shape artists’ legacies, well they translate exhibitions book form, these offer opportunities explore directions scholarship, an internationalizing trend turn interdisciplinary methodologies.