Pictures of people
Subtitle: Alice Neel's American portrait gallery
By: by Pamela Allara
Contributors: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
Publisher: University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781584650362; 9781611685138
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Portraits; Criticism and interpretation; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the portrait gallery; title: The creation (of a) myth; title: From portraiture to pictures of people: Neel's portrait conventions; title: Starting out from home, 1927-1932; title: Art on the left in the 1930s; title: The Cold War battles: 1940-1980; title: El barrio: portrait of Spanish Harlem; title: A gallery of players: artist-critic-dealer; title: The women's wing: Neel and feminist art; title: Truth unveiled: the portrait nude; title: Shifting constellations: the family (dis)membered.