Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery

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UPNE, 2000 - 374 páginas
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 portraits graced the covers of publications like Ms. and Time, most of her subjects were unknowns -- the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the oppressed. "Every person is a new universe unique with its own laws," Neel once said, but these arresting images of Greenwich Village intelligentsia, of Latinos and Latinas from Spanish Harlem, of gay and lesbian writers and artists, also evoke a profound, if disquieting, sense of time and place. Neel, informed by left-wing politics and avant-garde modernism, infused portraiture with a new energy and relevance, rescuing her sitters for history and rendering them witnesses to their time.
 

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The Creation of a Myth
3
Art on the Left in the 1930s
59
The Cold War Battles 19401980
90
Alice Neel Eisenhower McCarthy Dulles
102
Alice Neel Save Willie McGee detail
103
Shurpin The Morning of Our Fatherland
105
Alice Neel Sam
106
Alice Neel Sam
107
Alice Neel José
134
Alice Neel Alice and José
135
Alice Neel José and Guitar
136
Alice Neel Puerto Rican Mother and Child Margarita and Carlitos
137
Alice Neel The Spanish Family
138
Dan Weiner Morris Levinson The President of Rival Dog Food and His Family Outside Their Home in Scarsdale
139
Alice Neel Black SpanishAmerican Family
140
Alice Neel Richard and Hartley
141

Alice Neel Mike Gold
108
Alice Neel Art Shields
110
Alice Neel Bill McKie
111
Alice Neel Alice Childress
112
Alice Neel Allen Ginsberg
114
Alice Neel Mike Gold In Memoriam
115
Alice Neel David Gordon
117
Alice Neel Jar from Samarkand
119
Alice Neel The Soyer Brothers
120
Lida Moser Alice Neel and Raphael Soyer at the Graham gallery
121
Alice Neel Gus Hall
123
Komar Melamid Stalin in Front of a Mirror
125
El Barrio Portrait of Spanish Harlem
127
Alice Neel Call Me Joe
128
Alice Neel Fire Escape
129
Alice Neel Three Puerto Rican Girls
142
Alice Neel James Farmers Children Tami and Abbey Farmer
143
Alice Neel Georgie Arce
144
Alice Neel Georgie Arce
145
Alice Neel Ballet Dancer
146
Alice Neel Harold Cruse
147
A Gallery of Players ArtistCriticDealer
163
The Womens Wing Neel and Feminist Art
191
Truth Unveiled The Portrait Nude
219
Shifting Constellations The Family DisMembered
243
NOTES
271
Starting Out from Home 19271932 377
275
BIBLIOGRAPHY
307
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
327
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PAMELA ALLARA is associate professor emerita of Brandeis University and a visiting researcher at the African Studies Center at Boston University.

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