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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 Neel'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.
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Eleanor Nairne ist Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator und Leiterin der Abteilung für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst am Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zuvor war sie leitende Kuratorin an der Barbican Art Gallery in London, wo sie unter anderem Ausstellungen wie Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle (2023), Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty (2021), Lee Krasner: Living Colour (2019) und Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) kuratierte. Sie schreibt regelmäßig für London Review of Books und Publikationen wie frieze und The Art Newspaper.
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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 Neel’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.
