Alice Neel

Alice Neel by Patricia Hills. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780810913585.

Patricia Hills exhaustive and well-illustrated book on Alice Neel uses extensive quotes from Neel herself. Neel speaks of her life, her ideas on art, and the world at large. She painted well-known figures in art, literature, music, politics as well as her family and friends -- depicting them clothed and sometimes naked, thus exposing their vulnerabilities. Never compromising, she kept to one goal: to paint people as she saw them. By painting individuals with all their idiosyncrasies, Neel also recorded universal constants - pregnancy, motherhood, death, and mourning. Included in this book are figure paintings from every period, as well as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors. Cloth over boards with a sewn binding; released with dustcover; 208 pp; color illustrations throughout. Biography; List of Exhibitions; Select Bibliography.