LeRoy Neiman The life of America's most beloved and belittled artist
Book - 2024
"LeRoy Neiman's story cuts a fascinating swath through the highs and lows-personal, professional, and cultural-of America over 90 years. He became a household name, his artwork saturated American culture for decades, and he rose high enough to be a pop culture punchline. Neiman was a keen self-promoter, saying later in life that even he didn't know who the real LeRoy Neiman was, but that all the fame and money that came his way was worth it. In this first biography of this captivating and off-putting man, Travis Vogan hunts for the real Neiman amid the America that made him"--
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- Published
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- pages : illustrations ; cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780226820071
- Underdog. LeRoy Runquist ; Street artist ; A roguish role model ; Midwestern bohemian ; A reporter type of painter
- Celebrity. Hefner's court painter ; Playboy's Norman Rockwell ; The sports artist ; At the Hotel des Artistes ; The heavyweight champion of art ; TV artist in a Xerox Society ; Middle America's Michelangelo
- Outcast. Bringing disease to the hospital ; The LeRoy Neiman of ... ; The price and cost of legitimacy ; All Told
- Conclusion: Fame and legacy.