Alice Neel - Eleanor Nairne Gebunden

Dynamic and forward thinking this unconventional retrospective monograph takes its cues from Alice Neel's life and work- at once intimate powerful and bursting with color. Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people landscape and still life Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by she explained right hot off the griddle. This beautifully designed volume takes a unique approach to the exhibition catalog highlighting Ne el's understanding of the fundamentally political nature of how we look at others and what it means to feel seen. Long a favorite of portrait lovers Neel has recently gained an even wider 21st-century audience appreciative of the searing candor with which she viewed the world the depth of her humanity and her championing of the underdog. This beautifully produced catalog features a thoroughly modern design as well as an essay by renowned critic Hilton Als and poetry by Daisy Lafarge.