Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery PDF
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Pictures of People : Alice Neel's American title: Portrait Gallery author: Allara, Pamela.; Neel, Alice publisher: University Press of New England isbn10 | asin: 0874518377 print isbn13: 9780874518375 ebook isbn13: 9780585224510 language: English Neel, Alice,--1900- --Criticism and subject interpretation, United States--Biography-- Portraits. publication date: 1998 lcc: ND1329.N36A9 1998eb ddc: 759.13 Neel, Alice,--1900- --Criticism and subject: interpretation, United States--Biography-- Portraits. Portraits. Page i Pictures of People Page ii Jonathan Brand, Alice Neel, 1968. Archives of American Art, Alice Neel Papers. Page iii Pictures of People Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery Pamela Allara Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Page iv Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 (c) 1998 by the Trustees of Brandeis University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book Throughout this book, "Estate of Alice Neel" includes works in the collections of Richard Neel, Hartley S. Neel, their respective families, and Neel Arts, Inc. Page v CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Portrait Gallery xv Part I: The Subjects of the Artist Chapter 1: The Creation (of a) Myth 3 Chapter 2: From Portraiture to Pictures of People: Neel's 14 Portrait Conventions Chapter 3: Starting Out from Home, 1927-1932 37 Page vi Part II: Neel's Social Realist Art: 1933-1981 Chapter 4: Art on the Left in the 1930s 59 Chapter 5: The Cold War Battles: 1940-1980 90 Chapter 6: El Barrio: Portrait of Spanish Harlem 127 Part III: The New York Art Network: 1960-1980 Chapter 7: A Gallery of Players: Artist-Critic-Dealer 163 Chapter 8: The Women's Wing: Neel and Feminist Art. 191 Part IV: The Extended Family Chapter 9: Truth Unveiled: The Portrait Nude 291 Chapter 10: Shifting Constellations: The Family 243 (Dis)Membered Notes 271 Bibliography 307 Photography Credits 327 Index of Names and Titles 329 Page vii ILLUSTRATIONS Color plates follow p. 140 Frontispiece: Jonathan Brand, Alice Neel ii Fig. 1. Anon., Mae West 9 Fig. 2. Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle 12 Fig. 3. Alice Neel, Beggars, Havana 18 Fig. 4. Alice Neel, Woman in Pink Velvet Hat 20 Fig. 5. Otto Dix, The Journalist Sylvia von Harden 21 Fig. 6. Robert Henri, Eva Green 22 Fig. 7. Alice Neel, Two Black Girls (Antonia and Carmen 23 Encarnacion) Fig. 8. Norman Rockwell, Richard Milhous Nixon 24 Fig. 9. Alice Neel, Sol Alkaitis 27 Fig. 10. Alice Neel, Fuller Brush Man 27 Fig. 11. Alice Neel, Ginny 29 Fig. 12. Alice Neel, Richard in the Era of the Corporation 29 Fig. 13. Alice Neel, Benny and Mary Ellen Andrews 30 Fig. 14. Edgar Degas, Edmondo and Therese Morbilli 31 Fig. 15. Alice Neel, Bessie Boris 34
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