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| LeRoy Neiman | 
enlarge | Authors: Leroy Neiman, Richard Brilliant Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (1 reviews) Sales Rank: 553059
Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.9 Dimensions (in): 14.4 x 12.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0810967952 Dewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780810967953 ASIN: 0810967952
Publication Date: November 4, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Book Description This magnificent volume celebrates the 50-year-long career of America's most popular living artist. Almost 350 color plates-the most complete look at the work of LeRoy Neiman to date-show the rich variety of his subject matter, reveal the evolution and continuities of his style, and offer a lively portrait of modern life in postwar America. For the first time in one book one can see the full depth and range of Neiman's oeuvre: his rapid sketches and watercolors and his bold, colorful paintings of the high life, the sporting life, and people in the public eye. Early in his career, Neiman mingled with the great figures of jazz-Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Mingus, and Davis-and his portraits of them are profound. As his reputation flourished he traveled the jet set circuit and depicted urban sophisticates, cafe society, and cocktail culture. He is perhaps best known for his stunning images of sports legends, from Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle to Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. A wealth of drawings confirms Neiman's stature as a master draftsman. Through the creative vision of this beloved artist-an effortless blend of abstraction and realism, line and color, meditation and effusion-we witness the rich, multifaceted spectacle of contemporary life.
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  America's Fauvist December 14, 2003 14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had been aware of LeRoy Neiman since the late Fifties when I first saw his work in Playboy. I knew that there were books of his work available, over the years but I had not bothered with them because I thought they were too specific in their subject matter. With this gorgeous book which has just over 330 color pictures (in more than 200 dpi) beautiful printed and designed this large size edition is just what I have been waiting for.
After his early appearance in Playboy an art critic at the time, Frank Getlein, said in the magazine, "All of this is painted in what looks at first like a very slapdash manner. It's anything but that. At ten feet, everything falls into flawless perspective". The apparent casualness of Neiman's style is quite fascinating, it does look so easy yet within the paintings very precise detail is achieved using dazzling colors and careful brushstrokes. In 'Toots Shor Bar' (1969) you can see the names of many famous brands within the kaleidoscope of color, 'Manhattan' (1998) reveals famous buildings with the merest touch of the brush, 'Vladimir Horowitz' (1968) looks like Mr Horowitz despite having his face made up of at least twelve flat colors.
In Richard Brilliant's short essay Neiman is discussed and nicely there are some drawings, a 1956 crayon sketch of some nudes to a 1985 felt pen on paper drawing of Red Skelton, to show what a great draughtsman he is but I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't some sort of description of Neiman brush technique and color use included in this essay. Brilliant also raises the interesting point that the art critics and historians have not paid serious attention to Neiman or for that matter Norman Rockwell, both artists are skilled technically and popular, I put this down to the subject matter both explored, Neiman paints sports events, celebrities and wealthy folk having fun while Rockwell covered middle America. Just not Fine Art it seems. (Incidentally you can read a short, very succinct explanation of the 'fine art' scene by New York gallery owner Louis Meisel on page fifteen of his book 'Photorealism since 1980').
If, like me, you are a fan of LeRoy Neiman you will enjoy this gorgeous coffee-table book, a beautiful survey of a colorful American artist.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click on 'customer images' under the cover.
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