Product Description \nAccompanying a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris 
Exploring the life and work of renowned feminist artist Alice Neel, 1900-1984 
Essays and an extensive anthology provide an academic insight into Neel's work\n“I have always believed that women should resent and refuse to accept all the gratuitous insults that men impose upon them.” – Alice Neel, 1971 One of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century, Alice Neel's vibrant, expressionistic paintings revealed a breath-taking depth of emotion within her subjects. From works exploring loss and grief, to communist political art, Neel's work pushed boundaries of social justice throughout the 1900s. Her dedication to capturing the truth of humanity is evident: she painted those rejected by society, the victims of social or gendered oppression. Latin American and Puerto Rican immigrants, African-American writers excluded from the intellectual elite, single mothers struggling to raise their children, homosexual couples – all were presented with equal candidness by Neel's brush. Her unflinching approach to the female body took a ground-breaking step towards reclaiming the nude from the male gaze, and the activism inherent to her art resonates with viewers to this day. This book highlights Neel's political and social commitment to her art, as a figurative painter at odds with the artistic styles of the avant-gardes of her time. Structured in two thematic parts – social injustice and gender inequality – this retrospective includes some 60 paintings and drawings as well as numerous documents. Following the artist from her first works in the 1920s to her final evocative self-portrait, made shortly before her death, this is the defining treatise on Alice Neel. 
 About the Author 
Serge Lasvignes was a Secretary General of the Government in France, and was appointed President of the Centre Pompidou in 2015. Bernard Blistène is a French art curator who has been Director of the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, since 2013. Angela Lampe is the curator of the Modern Collections department at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou. Jeremy Lewison served as the Director of Collections at Tate, and acted as the advisor to the Estate of Alice Neel from 2003 to 2020. Larne Abse Gogarty is a lecturer in History and Theory of Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Elisabeth Lebovici is a French art historian, critic and curator. She is the former chief editor of Beaux Arts magazine and arts editor for Libération. Nathalie Ernoult is a Conservation Officer at the Centre Pompidou.

Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye

Arts & Photography

Blistène, Bernard

Lasvignes, Serge

Lampe, Angela

Individual Artists

Acc Art Books

Here is a fresh, exhilarating approach to the history of twentieth-century art. Rejecting the year-by-year sequential approach of conventional accounts, author Bernard Blistène tackles the subject thematically, using key works as a springboard to understanding the ideas and techniques of the major artists of the century. The book encompasses the visual arts in the broadest sense of the term. In addition to painting, sculpture and the new art forms of the postwar era, it covers architecture, photography, industrial design and video. Each chapter treats a different theme-- from Fauvism to film, Dada to design-- providing: * a general overview of the movement or period in question * numerous illustrations of particular works, each accompanied by brief explanatory texts * chronologies detailing important events within and around the world of art * bibliographies and suggested museum visits for each movement. With over 500 illustrations, A History of 20th-Century Art provides a lucid and compelling introduction to artistic creation in the last century.

A History of 20th-Century Art

History & Criticism

Flammarion

UNE HISTOIRE DE L'ART DU XXE SIECLE (NE)

BEAUX ARTS ED

Since her first New York exhibition in 1965, when she showed copies of Warhol's flowers, John's flags, Oldenburg's soft sculptures, and a Rosenquist drawing, Elaine Sturtevant has made a sophisticated play of originality, authorship, and signature. Conceived by the artist herself, Shifting Mental Structures includes recent works.

Sturtevant: Shifting Mental Structures

Hainley, Bruce

Sturtevant, Elaine

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Borrowing its name from a French stationary manufacturer, the artist collective Claire Fontaine was formed in Paris in 2004. Its works analyze the crisis of individuality in contemporary culture using video, installation, sculpture and text. This publication presents various works that combat the poverty and passivity of contemporary politics.

Claire Fontaine: Foreigners Everywhere

FOSTER, HAL

Liucci-Goutnikov, Nicolas

Walther König, Köln

This book is the catalog to Jim Dine’s (born 1935) exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, covering four decades of his varied and prodigious output. Over the past years Dine has donated large personal selections of his art to museums across Europe and the US, including the British Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One such gift to the Centre Pompidou, consisting of 24 paintings and sculptures from 1966 to the present, is the subject of this book. Featuring double-page reproductions of each work―covering Dine’s major motifs including his hearts, bathrobes, birds, self-portraits and tools―as well his new 40-page interview with Centre Pompidou director Bernard Blistène (supplemented with archival photos), this book is the most detailed survey to date of one of the most important contemporary artists.

Jim Dine: Paris Reconnaissance (STEIDL LG)

DINE, Jim

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Steidl/Centre Pompidou

Enrico Catellani. Ediz. italiana, inglese e francese

Forma Edizioni

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