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 portrait...

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Autor principal: Allara, Pamela
Otros Autores: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England : Brandeis University Press, 2000, c1998.
Edición:1st paperback ed.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.