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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Alice Neel; Alice Neel |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phoebe Hoban |
| ISBN: | 9780312607487 0312607482 |
| OCLC Number: | 606786103 |
| Description: | x, 500 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Studio still life -- Childhood's canvas -- Designing women -- En plein air -- Limbo -- Tropical soul -- (You can go) home again -- Futility of effort -- The bell jar -- Resurrection -- Next stop, Grenwich Village -- The easel project -- A man's a man for all that -- Moving on -- Jose and Spanish Harlem -- More truth -- Enter Sam -- Painting in oblivion -- Domestic dramas -- Monsters and victims -- In the middle of the road -- Romancero Guajiro -- Pull my daisy (from flower to power) -- Their balls are just higher up -- Vindication -- Bowing out -- Last look -- Coda -- Epilogue. |
| Other Titles: | Art of not sitting pretty |
| Responsibility: | Phoebe Hoban. |
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"Phoebe Hoban's biography of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty is terrific. It is not only an engrossing narrative, it's Hoban's singular achievement that she gives both an appreciation of Neel's provocative art and a deep compassion for Neel the woman, too." --Patricia Bosworth author of DIANE ARBUS, a biography"Phoebe Hoban's biography of the iconoclast Alice Neel, rich in details and highly readable, should do much to establish Neel for a new generation as a powerful figurative painter and counter-figure to the male-dominated world of the Abstract Expressionists. What emerges here is the compelling tale of a proto-feminist, pre-hippie hippie and uncompromising artist who only towards the end of her career received widespread recognition, most notably from her portrait of Kate Millet on the cover of Time, which became the face of women's liberation." --Annalyn Swan, co-author of de Kooning: An American Master Phoebe Hoban's biography of "Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty" is terrific. It is not only an engrossing narrative, it's Hoban's singular achievement that she gives both an appreciation of Neel's provocative art and a deep compassion for Neel the woman, too. "Patricia Bosworth author of DIANE ARBUS, a biography" Phoebe Hoban's biography of the iconoclast Alice Neel, rich in details and highly readable, should do much to establish Neel for a new generation as a powerful figurative painter and counter-figure to the male-dominated world of the Abstract Expressionists. What emerges here is the compelling tale of a proto-feminist, pre-hippie hippie and uncompromising artist who only towards the end of her career received widespread recognition, most notably from her portrait of Kate Millet on the cover of "Time," which became the face of women's liberation. "Annalyn Swan, co-author of de Kooning: An American Master"" "Phoebe Hoban's biography of "Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty" is terrific. It is not only an engrossing narrative, it's Hoban's singular achievement that she gives both an appreciation of Neel's provocative art and a deep compassion for Neel the woman, too."--Patricia Bosworth author of "DIANE ARBUS, a biography""Phoebe Hoban's biography of the iconoclast Alice Neel, rich in details and highly readable, should do much to establish Neel for a new generation as a powerful figurative painter and counter-figure to the male-dominated world of the Abstract Expressionists. What emerges here is the compelling tale of a proto-feminist, pre-hippie hippie and uncompromising artist who only towards the end of her career received widespread recognition, most notably from her portrait of Kate Millet on the cover of "Time," which became the face of women's liberation."--Annalyn Swan, co-author of "de Kooning: An American Master" Read more...
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- Women artists -- United States -- Biography.
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