Bibliograph

Alice Neel, uptown, Hilton Als

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Label

Alice Neel, uptown, Hilton Als

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 9)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alice Neel, uptown

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

967973051

Responsibility statement

Hilton Als

Summary

Alice Neel, Uptown' explores Neel's interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely-published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem. Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families

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