{"product_id":"alice-neel-the-art-of-not-sitting-pretty-paperback","title":"Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhoebe Hoban\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlice Neel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Neel emerges as a resolute survivor who lived by her convictions, both aesthetically and politically.\" --Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhoebe Hoban's definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women's suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and second-wave feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring place in the canon.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice Neel's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neel was fiercely democratic in selecting her subjects, who represent an extraordinarily diverse population--from such legendary figures as Joe Gould to her Spanish Harlem neighbors in the 1940s, the art critic Meyer Schapiro, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Andy Warhol, and major figures of the labor, civil rights, and feminist movements--producing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this first paperback edition of the authoritative biography of Neel, which serves also as a cultural history of twentieth-century New York, Hoban documents the tumultuous life of the artist in vivid detail, creating a portrait as incisive as Neel's relentlessly honest paintings. With a new introduction by Hoban that explores Neel's enduring relevance, this biography is essential to understanding and appreciating the life and work of one of America's foremost artists.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhoebe Hoban\u003c\/b\u003e is a New York-based journalist who has covered art and culture for a number of major publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, \u003ci\u003eBasquiat: A Quick Killing in Art\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) was a national bestseller and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year. Her biography of Alice Neel, \u003ci\u003eAlice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), was named one of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eNew\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYork\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and one of the Ten Best Biographies of the Year by \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent biography, \u003ci\u003eLucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Editors' Pick. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Neel \u003c\/b\u003ewas 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768443797792,"sku":"9781644230527","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/826181ecb04912c0487da8ef85aed044.webp?v=1780329854","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/alice-neel-the-art-of-not-sitting-pretty-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}