Pictures of people : Alice Neel's American portrait gallery
"In this generously illustrated chronicle of the life and work of prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, Pamela Allara shows how portraits from a career that spanned 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." --Descripción del editor
Print Book, English, 2000, ©1998
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University Press of New England : Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH, 2000, ©1998
Biography
xix, 338 p., [16] p. de láms. : il. ; 23 cm.
9781584650362, 9781611685138, 1584650362, 1611685133
1089397343
Introduction: the portrait gallery
The creation (of a) myth
From portraiture to pictures of people: Neel's portrait conventions
Starting out from home, 1927-1932
Art on the left in the 1930s
The Cold War battles: 1940-1980
El barrio: portrait of Spanish Harlem
A gallery of players: artist-critic-dealer
The women's wing: Neel and feminist art
Truth unveiled: the portrait nude
Shifting constellations: the family (dis)membered