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Alice Neel, painter of modern life, edited by Jeremy Lewison ; with contributions by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps, Annamari Vänskä

Label
Alice Neel, painter of modern life, edited by Jeremy Lewison ; with contributions by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps, Annamari Vänskä
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Alice Neel
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
954037776
Responsibility statement
edited by Jeremy Lewison ; with contributions by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps, Annamari Vänskä
Series statement
Ateneum publications,, vol. 80, 1238-4712
Sub title
painter of modern life
Summary
This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel's (1900-1984) celebrated paintings of people, still life, and cityscapes. Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cezanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works. Neel is renowned for her visual acuity and psychological depth, and her portraits and nude paintings of friends, family, strangers, and prominent cultural figures alike convey an incredibly consistent intimacy regardless of the relationship to her subject. The accompanying essays trace the trajectory of Neel's artistic language as it evolved alongside contemporaneous trends in the New York City art world and examines the manner in which her own work figured into the social and cultural contexts of her time.Created over a sixty year period, Neel's oeuvre offers a remarkably expressive document of the specific milieus she navigated through and ultimately transcends the marker of time altogether. Exhibition: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (06-10.2016) / Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands (11.2016-02.2017) / Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France (03-09.2017) / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (10.2017-01.2018)
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Painter of Modern Life
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