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Alice Neel : people come first / Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey ; with contributions by Meredith A. Brown, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Susanna V. Temkin.

"'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 po...

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Other Authors: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984, Baum, Kelly (Curator), Griffey, Randall R. (Curator), Brown, Meredith A. (Contributor), Bryan-Wilson, Julia (Contributor), Temkin, Susanna V. (Contributor)
Other title:People come first.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
Subjects:
Neel, Alice, > 1900-1984 > Exhibitions.
Neel, Alice, > 1900-1984 > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Portrait painters > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Women artists > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Neel, Alice, > 1900-1984.
Painting, American.
Portrait painting, American.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributions 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.

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