Alice Neel
Hot off the Griddle
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
Dynamic and forward thinking this
unconventional retrospective monograph
takes its cues from Alice Neel’s life and work—
at once intimate, powerful, and bursting with
color.
Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. “One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by,” she explained, “right hot off the griddle.” This beautifully designed volume takes a unique approach to the exhibition catalog, highlighting Neel’s understanding of the fundamentally political nature of how we look at others, and what it means to feel seen. Long a favorite of portrait lovers, Neel has recently gained an even wider 21st-century audience appreciative of the searing candor with which she viewed the world, the depth of her humanity, and her championing of the underdog. This beautifully produced catalog features a thoroughly modern design, as well as an essay by renowned critic Hilton Als and poetry by Daisy Lafarge.
Exhibition itinerary: Barbican Art Gallery: 16th February 2023 - 21st May 2023.
Alice Neel is an important American woman artist of the 20th Century.
With her psychological portaits, Alice Neel touches on feminism and on issues related to the role of women
Unique design approach, distancing itself from existing books on the market
The book is beautifully produced with special features
Lower price-point and more accessible content reaches a different audience than higher spec existing Neel monographs.
Accompanies the largest exhibition of Neel’s works ever held in the UK.
Capitalises on a string of successful Neel exhibitions in recent years, including Metropolitan Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Autor*in
Eleanor Nairne
Eleanor Nairne ist Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator und Leiterin der Abteilung für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst am Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zuvor war sie leitende Kuratorin an der Barbican Art Gallery in London, wo sie unter anderem Ausstellungen wie Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle (2023), Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty (2021), Lee Krasner: Living Colour (2019) und Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) kuratierte. Sie schreibt regelmäßig für London Review of Books und Publikationen wie frieze und The Art Newspaper.
Themen in »Alice Neel«
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