Neel, Alice.

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

Athens (Georgia), Georgia Museum of Art, 1975. Quarto. 160 unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout with images of art and photographs. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. First edition of this exhibition catalogue. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear and some foxing to endpaper. Inscribed and signed by Alice Neel: “To Elena Urbaitis, with love, Alice Neel, 1976.”

Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was 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. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: American Art · Art – Rare · Catalogue Four – International Art · Inanna Modern – Art Books · Inscribed · Signed
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32076AB

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