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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

English

By (author): Phoebe Hoban

Phoebe Hobans definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from womens suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring place in the canon.

Alice Neels stated goal was to capture the zeitgeist. Born into a proper Victorian family at the turn of the twentieth century, Neel reached voting age during suffrage. A quintessential bohemian, she was one of the first artists participating in the Easel Project of the Works Progress Administration, documenting the challenges of life during the Depression. An avowed humanist, Neel chose to paint the world around her, sticking to figurative work even during the peak of abstract expressionism. Neel never ceased pushing the envelope, creating a unique chronicle of her time.

Neel was fiercely democratic in selecting her subjects, who represent an extraordinarily diverse populationfrom such legendary figures as Joe Gould to her Spanish Harlem neighbors in the 1940s, the art critic Meyer Shapiro, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Andy Warhol, and major figures of the labor, civil rights and feminist movementsproducing an indelible portrait of twentieth-century America. By dictating her own terms, Neel was able to transcend such personal tragedy as the death of her infant daughter, Santillana, a nervous breakdown and suicide attempts, and the separation from her second child, Isabetta. After spending much of her career in relative obscurity, Neel finally received a major museum retrospective in 1974, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York.

In this first paperback edition of the authoritative biography of Alice Neel, which serves also as a cultural history of twentieth-century New York, the author Phoebe Hoban documents the tumultuous life of the artist in vivid detail, creating a portrait of the artist as incisive as Neels relentlessly honest paintings. With a new introduction by Hoban that explores Neels enduring relevance, this biography is essential to understanding and appreciating the life and work of one of Americas foremost artists. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: David Zwirner
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781644230527

About Phoebe Hoban

Alice Neel was born in 1900 in Merion Square Pennsylvania and died in 1984 in New York. With a practice spanning from the 1920s to the 1980s Neel is widely regarded as one of the foremost American painters of the twentieth century. Based in New York Neel selected her sitters from among her family members friends neighbors and a variety of New Yorkers and her eccentric portraits are thus a portrayal of and dialogue with the city in which she lived. Although she showed sporadically early in her career from the 1960s onward her work was exhibited widely in the United States. In 1974 she had her first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Phoebe Hoban is the bestselling author of Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art (1998). She has written about culture and the arts for Vogue Vanity Fair GQ Harper's Bazaar New York magazine The New York Times and other publications. She lives in New York.

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