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Pictures of people : Alice Neel's American portrait gallery / by Pamela Allara.

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In this generously illustrated and vibrant chronicle of the life and work of prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, Pamela Allara shows how portraits from a career spanning the 1920s to the 1970s constitute a virtual gallery of American cultural history. While some of Neel's portra...

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Main Author: Allara, Pamela
Other Authors: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Neel, Alice, > 1900-1984 > Criticism and interpretation.
United States > Biography > Portraits.
Neel, Alice, > 1900-1984.
United States.
Portraits.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Portrait Gallery
  • PART I: THE SUBJECTS OF THE ARTIST
  • The Creation (of a) Myth
  • From Portraiture to Pictures of People: Neel's Portrait Conventions
  • Starting Out from Home, 1927
  • 1932
  • PART II: NEEL'S SOCIAL REALIST ART: 1933
  • 1981
  • Art on the Left in the 1930s
  • The Cold War Battles: 1940
  • 1980
  • El Barrio: Portrait of Spanish Harlem
  • PART III: THE NEW YORK ART NETWORK: 1960
  • 1980
  • A Gallery of Players: Artist-Critic-Dealer
  • The Women's Wing: Neel and Feminist Art
  • PART IV: THE EXTENDED FAMILY
  • Truth Unveiled: The Portrait Nude
  • Shifting Constellations: The Family (Dis)Membered.

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