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Alice Neel : people come first by Alice Neel; Kelly Baum; Randall R Griffey; Meredith A Brown; Julia Bryan-Wilson; Susanna V Temkin; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao,; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects One of the most ambitious and thorough collections of Neels work to date.Allison Schaller, Vanity Fair For me, people come first, Alice Neel (19001984) declared in 1950. I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being. This ambitious publication surveys Neels nearly 70-year career through the lens of her radical humanism. Remarkable portraits of victims of the Great Depression, fellow residents of Spanish Harlem, leaders of political organizations, queer artists, visibly pregnant women, and members of New Yorks global diaspora reveal that Neel viewed humanism as both a political and philosophical ideal. In addition to these paintings of famous and unknown sitters, the more than 100 works highlighted include Neels emotionally charged cityscapes and still lifes as well as the artists erotic pastels and watercolors. Essays tackle Neels portrayal of LGBTQ subjects; her unique aesthetic language, which merged abstraction and figuration; and her commitment to progressive p
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- Author
- Alice Neel; Kelly Baum; Randall R Griffey; Meredith A Brown; Julia Bryan-Wilson; Susanna V Temkin; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao,; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
- Publisher
- New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, Connecticut: Distributed by Yale University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781588397256
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (204 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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