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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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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, UN REGARD ENGAGÉ | CATALOGUE MONOGRAPHIQUE
, Centre Pompidou, 2020 paperback, Language: French,160 pages,23 cm x 28 cm. Texte en Francais. neuf! ISBN 9782844268778.
Cet ouvrage a été conçu pour accompagner l'exposition "Alice Neel. Un regard engagé" initialement prévue au Centre Pompidou de juin à août 2020. En raison de l'épidémie de Covi-19, l'exposition a été reportés à l'automne 2022, mais le catalogue est déjà disponible et permet de publier les nombreuses recherches dont il a bénéficié. DESCRIPTIF Méconnue de son vivant, Alice Neel (1900-1984) s'impose aujourd'hui comme une figure majeure de la peinture américaine, notamment grâce à l'acuité de ses portraits des différentes communautés new-yorkaises. Sympathisante communiste, Neel s'est intéressée tout au long de sa vie aux injustices et aux inégalités, épinglant la ségrégation raciale comme la discrimination à l'encontre des femmes et des homosexuels. Ses nus féminins, peints sans concession, ont fait d'elle une icône du féminisme. Centré sur deux thématiques - la lutte des classes et la lutte des sexes - , Alice Neel, Un regard engagé explore les dimensions politique et sociale d'une peinture puissante à la lumière de citations et de propos inédits de l'artiste. En tant que l'un des rares catalogues en langue française consacré à la peintre, le catalogue se déploie autour de quatre essais et une ample anthologie accompagnant une soixantaine d'?uvres éclairées par de nombreuses citations de l'artiste. The first monographic exhibition in France dedicated to Alice Neel (1900-1948), a major American artist, highlights the political and social commitment of a figurative painter at odds with the artistic styles of the avant-gardes of her time.Structured in two thematic parts, social injustice and gender inequality, the retrospective includes some sixty paintings and drawings as well as numerous documents, from her first works at the end of the 1920s to her last paintings, made shortly before her death. The act of creation being fundamentally a search for truth for Alice Neel, the artist paints those rejected by society, the victims of social or gendered oppression: Latin American and Puerto Rican immigrants, African-American writers excluded from the intellectual elite, single mothers struggling to raise their children, homosexual couples - all committed portraits presented by the artist with communist affinities. As one of the few French-language catalogues devoted to the painter, the catalogue will also be in two parts, around four essays and an extensive anthology accompanying some sixty works illuminated by numerous quotations from the artist.
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."
ALICE NEEL An Engaged Eye.
, ACC Art Books, 2021 Hardcover 280 x 230 mm, 160 pages, ENG edition FINE, Expo: Spring 2022, Centre Pompidou, Paris. ISBN 9781788841443.
One of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century, Alice Neel's vibrant, expressionistic paintings revealed a breath-taking depth of emotion within her subjects. From works exploring loss and grief, to communist political art, Neel's work pushed boundaries of social justice throughout the 1900s. Her dedication to capturing the truth of humanity is evident: she painted those rejected by society, the victims of social or gendered oppression. Latin American and Puerto Rican immigrants, African-American writers excluded from the intellectual elite, single mothers struggling to raise their children, homosexual couples - all were presented with equal candidness by Neel's brush. Her unflinching approach to the female body took a ground-breaking step towards reclaiming the nude from the male gaze, and the activism inherent to her art resonates with viewers to this day. This book highlights Neel's political and social commitment to her art, as a figurative painter at odds with the artistic styles of the avant-gardes of her time. Structured in two thematic parts - social injustice and gender inequality - this retrospective includes some 60 paintings and drawings as well as numerous documents. Following the artist from her first works in the 1920s to her final evocative self-portrait, made shortly before her death, this is the defining treatise on Alice Neel.
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.
