Write to the booksellers
HILLS Patricia
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.
Reference : 41407
Bookseller's contact details
Librairie Ancienne Laurencier
M. Patrick Laurencier
7 rue du Chai des Farines
33000 Bordeaux
France
livresanciens.laurencier@wanadoo.fr
33 05 56 81 68 79
Payment mode
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, UN REGARD ENGAG | CATALOGUE MONOGRAPHIQUE
, Centre Pompidou, 2020 paperback, Language: French,160 pages,23 cm x 28 cm. Texte en Francais. neuf! ISBN 9782844268778.
Cet ouvrage a t con u pour accompagner l'exposition "Alice Neel. Un regard engag " initialement pr vue au Centre Pompidou de juin ao t 2020. En raison de l' pid mie de Covi-19, l'exposition a t report s l'automne 2022, mais le catalogue est d j disponible et permet de publier les nombreuses recherches dont il a b n fici . DESCRIPTIF M connue de son vivant, Alice Neel (1900-1984) s'impose aujourd'hui comme une figure majeure de la peinture am ricaine, notamment gr ce l'acuit de ses portraits des diff rentes communaut s new-yorkaises. Sympathisante communiste, Neel s'est int ress e tout au long de sa vie aux injustices et aux in galit s, pinglant la s gr gation raciale comme la discrimination l'encontre des femmes et des homosexuels. Ses nus f minins, peints sans concession, ont fait d'elle une ic ne du f minisme. Centr sur deux th matiques - la lutte des classes et la lutte des sexes - , Alice Neel, Un regard engag explore les dimensions politique et sociale d'une peinture puissante la lumi re de citations et de propos in dits de l'artiste. En tant que l'un des rares catalogues en langue fran aise consacr la peintre, le catalogue se d ploie autour de quatre essais et une ample anthologie accompagnant une soixantaine d'?uvres clair es 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.
Sous la direction de Jeremy Lewison. Avec des contributions de Bice Curiger, Petra Gorduren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Staps & Annamari Vanska
Reference : 48825
Alice Neel. Peintre de la vie moderne. FR / Painter of Modern Life
NL-BE, mercaterfonds - fondsmercator, 2016 Hardcover, Couverture reliee sous jaquette - Pages: 240 - Dimensions: 29 x 25 / FR. ISBN 9789462301375.
Alice Neel (1900-1914) est l'une des plus importantes peintres figuratives nord-americaines du xxe siecle. Ses portraits a la forte dimension psychologique, ses natures mortes poignantes et ses paysages charges d'emotion temoignent d'un siecle d'evolutions dans les comportements, les styles de vie et les moeurs de la societe. A New York, Neel s'est impliquee aupres des communautes avec lesquelles elle a successivement vecu, a Greenwich Village, Spanish Harlem, et enfin dans l'Upper West Side. Sympathisante communiste, elle s'est fortement interessee aux opprimes et aux victimes de discrimination Africains-Americains, Portoricains, militants, homosexuels ou travestis. A partir de la fin des annees 1950, elle a egalement peint des images aussi remarquables que sinceres de ses collegues artistes et ecrivains. Avec leur traitement sans idealisation ni erotisation de ses consoeurs, ses portraits de femmes nues annoncent les preoccupations du feminisme de la deuxieme vague, tandis que ses representations de meres a l?enfant viennent insuffler un realisme a un sujet traditionnellement envisage sous l?angle sentimental. Peintre de la vie moderne, Neel nous offre une vision intime, quoique peu conventionnelle, des aspects meconnus de la vie contemporaine. Cet ouvrage richement illustre presente un regard inedit sur la carriere de Neel. Les essais de Bice Curiger, Petra Gorduren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps et Annamari Vanska etudient en profondeur l?evolution stylistique de l?artiste a l?ere de la photographie, son positionnement dans les debats du milieu du siecle sur la ? crise de l?homme ? , sa decouverte de la peinture allemande du debut du xxe siecle, son non-conformisme et ses sympathies politiques, ainsi que son rapport a la deuxieme vague du discours feministe. Les soixante-douze reproductions du catalogue donnent de nouvelles informations pertinentes sur chacune des oeuvres. Avec sa chronologie illustree de la vie de Neel, ce livre offre un panorama complet sur une artiste nord-americaine majeure.
