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Alice Neel
New-York.Harry N.Abrams.1983.In-4 toilé avec jaquette illustrée d'un portrait en couleurs.208 p.Nombreuses reproductions en noir et en couleurs.TBE.
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5 book(s) with the same title
Alice Neel : Freedom
Verona, David Zwirner Books 2019, 2019 Hardcover, 112 pages, with 52 coloured illustrations, English, 285 x 235 mm, in dustjacket, New !. ISBN 9781941701980.
Text by Helen Molesworth. Introduction by Ginny Neel. Contribution by Marlene Dumas One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, it is not surprising that Alice Neel was a humanist?she was fascinated by people. Known for her daringly honest portraits, Neel loved to paint people in all their complexities?to penetrate and reveal their fears and anxieties, how they defiance and survival. She also loved to paint the unadorned human figure. Her nudes, in particular, explore the body with frankness while celebrating the individuality of each of her subjects, and they exemplify the freedom and courage with which she approached her work and her life. Through her paintings and works on paper, Neel was able to free herself from the expected inhibitions and crippling taboos that were placed on women and focus on the beauty and nuanced complexity of flesh and the human body. In their mastery of form, color, and implied social commentary, her nudes are as relevant today as when they were painted. Freedom documents the solo exhibition of the artist?s work at David Zwirner in New York in 2019. Including works that span the 1920s to the 1980s, this presentation focuses primarily on the nude figure?whether male or female, adult or child?and demonstrates how Neel rebelled against and challenged the traditional perceptions of sexuality, motherhood, and beauty in our society. The catalogue includes newly commissioned scholarship by Helen Molesworth and an introduction by Ginny Neel of The Estate of Alice Neel.
ALICE NEEL Uptown
, David Zwirner Books, 2017 HB, 267 x 216 mm, 144 p, 57 illustraties color, English edition. ISBN 9781941701607.
Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists and more, Alice Neel (1900-84) created forthright, intimate and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues. In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African Americans, Latinos, Asians and other people of color for the first time. Highlighting the innate diversity of Neel's approach, the selection looks at those often left out of the art-historical canon and how this extraordinary painter captured them; "what fascinated her was the breadth of humanity that she encountered," Als writes. The publication explores Neel's interest in the diversity of uptown New York and the variety of people among whom she lived. This group of portraits includes well-known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress, the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse, alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman and a local boy who ran errands for Neel. In short and illuminating texts on specific works written in his characteristic narrative style, Als writes about the history of each sitter and offers insights into Neel and her work, while adding his own perspective. A contemporary and personal approach to the artist's oeuvre, Als' project is "an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity of her seeing."
Baum, Kelly, and Randall Griffey, with contributions by Meredith A. Brown, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Susanna V. Temkin
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Alice Neel: People Come First
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021 Hardcover, 256 pages, 201 illustrations, 8 x 11.5 in., EN. *NEW . ISBN 9781588397256.
"For me, people come first," Alice Neel (1900?1984) declared in 1950. "I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being." This ambitious publication surveys Neel's nearly 70-year career through the lens of her radical humanism. Remarkable portraits of victims of the Great Depression, fellow residents of Spanish Harlem, leaders of political organizations, queer artists, visibly pregnant women, and members of New York's global diaspora reveal that Neel viewed humanism as both a political and philosophical ideal. In addition to these paintings of famous and unknown sitters, the more than 100 works highlighted include Neel's emotionally charged cityscapes and still lifes as well as the artist?s erotic pastels and watercolors. Essays tackle Neel's portrayal of LGBTQ subjects; her unique aesthetic language, which merged abstraction and figuration; and her commitment to progressive politics, civil rights, feminism, and racial diversity. The authors also explore Neel's highly personal preoccupations with death, illness, and motherhood while reasserting her place in the broader cultural history of the 20th century. Director's Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors to the Catalogue Lenders to the Exhibition Anarchic Humanist Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey Political Creatures Kelly Baum Siempre en la Calle Susanna V. Temkin "I'll Show Everybody": An Artist-Mother at Home Meredith A. Brown Painting Fruit(s) Randall Griffey Alice Neel's "Good Abstract Qualities" Julia Bryan-Wilson Plates Notes Works in Plates Index Photography Credits
Alice Neel hot off the griddle
, Prestel Publishing, 2023 Hardcover, 160 pages, 22 x 15 cm, EN. *New. ISBN 9783791379661.
Dynamic and forward thinking, this unconventional retrospective monograph takes its cues from Alice Neel?s life and work? at once intimate, powerful, and bursting with color. Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. ?One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, ? she explained, ?right hot off the griddle.? This beautifully designed volume takes a unique approach to the exhibition catalog, highlighting Neel?s understanding of the fundamentally political nature of how we look at others, and what it means to feel seen. Long a favorite of portrait lovers, Neel has recently gained an even wider 21st-century audience appreciative of the searing candor with which she viewed the world, the depth of her humanity, and her championing of the underdog. This beautifully produced catalog features a thoroughly modern design, as well as an essay by renowned critic Hilton Als and poetry by Daisy Lafarge.
ALICE NEEL : Hot off the Griddle
, Prestel Publishing, 2023 HB, 220 x 150 mm, 160 p, 130 Kleurenillustraties EN edition. ISBN 9783791379661.
Alice Neel was never one to bow to convention, neither in the way she lived her life nor in the manner in which she chose to paint. Born at the turn of the 20th Century, she grew up in a Pennsylvania town devoid of culture in a society riven with racism, homophobia and misogyny. Yet she escaped to study art and went on to create astonishingly innovative portraits of those generally ignored by society ? her Puerto Rican neighbours in Spanish Harlem, black intellectuals, communist activists, pregnant women and sex workers. "I am a collector of souls? I paint my time using the people as evidence," said Neel.
