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Phoebe Hoban: Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty Peter Blake it is at once “aDavid Zwirner Books, 2021, softcover, 512 pages, 19. 9 x 13. 2 cm Phoebe Hobans definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from womens suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring