Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the Intangible in Art and Nature

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature. Both Adams and O'Keeffe were aware of ma...

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Published in:History of photography 2008-12, Vol.32 (4), p.301-301
Main Author: Hammond, Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934)
Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947)
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Jean Toomer (1894-19647)
landscape art
theosophy
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Summary:Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature. Both Adams and O'Keeffe were aware of manifold currents of mystical thought in the 1930s through personal contact with the theosophical teachers A. R. Orage and Jean Toomer. Treating landscape features as psychological and spiritual phenomena, they shared a lifelong quest for creative development and self-discovery through the forms of nature.
ISSN:0308-7298
2150-7295
DOI:10.1080/03087290802315736