Alice Neel

Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work [Signed and Inscribed]

Athens: Georgia Museum of Art / The University of Georgia, 1975. Softcover. Quarto. 160 pp. Unpaginated. Orange card wrappers. Inscribed by the artist on the title-page: 'To/Doris and Bob/Alice Neel '82.' The catalogue of an exhibition. Almost all of the 83 paintings listed are reproduced in black and white. Texts by Neel herself, Cindy Nemser and two of the sitters in the portraits, Dorothy Pearlstein and Raphael Soyer as an American visual artist. Recognized for her paintings of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers, Neel is considered one of the greatest American portraitists of the 20th century. Her career spanned from the 1920s to 1980s. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. She pursued a career as a figurative painter during a period when abstraction was favored, and she did not begin to gain critical praise for her work until the 1960s. Her work contradicts and challenges the traditional and objectified nude depictions of women by her male predecessors. This is done by depicting women through a female gaze, illustrating them as being consciously aware of the objectification by men and the demoralizing effects of the male gaze. Fine in orange card wrappers. Item #1025202512

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