Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye by: Serge Lasvignes/Bernard Blistene/Angela Lampe
Hardcover. ACC Art Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 160 pages. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris exploring the life and work of renowned feminist artist Alice Neel, 1900-1984.Essays and an extensive anthology provide an academic insight into Neel's work. "I have always believed that women should resent and refuse to accept all the gratuitous insults that men impose upon them." - Alice Neel, 1971 One of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century, Alice Neel's vibrant, expressionistic paintings revealed a breath-taking depth of emotion within her subjects. From works exploring loss and grief, to communist political art, Neel's work pushed boundaries of social justice throughout the 1900s. Her dedication to capturing the truth of humanity is evident: she painted those rejected by society, the victims of social or gendered oppression. Latin American and Puerto Rican immigrants, African-American writers excluded from the intellectual elite, single mothers struggling to raise their children, homosexual couples - all were presented with equal candidness by Neel's brush.