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Alice Neel : the art of not sitting pretty / Phoebe Hoban.

Title
Alice Neel : the art of not sitting pretty / Phoebe Hoban.
Author
Hoban, Phoebe.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Description
x, 500 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Alternative Title
Art of not sitting pretty
Subject
  • Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
  • Portrait painters > United States > Biography
  • Women artists > United States > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Studio still life -- Childhood's canvas -- Designing women -- En plein air -- Limbo -- Tropical soul -- (You can go) home again -- Futility of effort -- The bell jar -- Resurrection -- Next stop, Grenwich Village -- The easel project -- A man's a man for all that -- Moving on -- Jose and Spanish Harlem -- More truth -- Enter Sam -- Painting in oblivion -- Domestic dramas -- Monsters and victims -- In the middle of the road -- Romancero Guajiro -- Pull my daisy (from flower to power) -- Their balls are just higher up -- Vindication -- Bowing out -- Last look -- Coda -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9780312607487
  • 0312607482
LCCN
^^2010035781