Pictures of people
Subtitle: Alice Neel's American portrait gallery
By: by Pamela Allara.
Contributors: Neel, Alice, 1900-
Publisher: University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Neel, Alice, 1900-  -- Criticism and interpretation; United States -- Biography -- Portraits
Description: In this generously illustrated chronicle of the life and work of prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, Pamela Allara shows how portraits from a career that spanned the 1920s to the 1970s constitute a virtual gallery of American cultural history. While some of Neel's portraits graced the covers of publications like Ms. and Time, most of her subjects were unknowns - the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the oppressed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.