Books

January, 1988

There are certain restaurants to which you go only if you're taking someone or being taken: The fiction of charity redeems the extravagance. There are books, similarly, that you'd never buy for yourself but which for that very reason make perfect Christmas presents. Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers (Knopf/Callaway) is a classic example, the supreme coffee-table book, 100 gorgeous color plates of O'Keeffe's formula for pretty pictures: blossoms exploded to mural size (the book's largest two-...