Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery

by Pamela Allara

Book Overview

In this generously illustrated and vibrant chronicle of the life and work of prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel, Pamela Allara shows how portraits from a career spanning 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. "Every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874518377
• ISBN13: 9780874518375
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"