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LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world's most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life he lived and the people he knew that make the memoir of this scrappy Depression-era kid who became a swashbuckling bon vivant with the famous mustache such a marvelous historical canvas. Chronicler and confidant of Muhammad Ali, Neiman also traveled with Sinatra, cavorted with Dalí and Warhol, watched afternoon soaps with Dizzy Gillespie, played in Sly Stallone's Rocky movies, exchanged quips with Nixon, smoked cigars with Castro, and experienced the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics alongside Peter Jennings, Howard Cosell, and Jim McKay. And then there was his half-century relationship with Hugh Hefner as principle artistic contributor to Playboy, setting up studios in London and Paris to cover his Playboy beat, "Man at His Leisure," and his creation of the Femlin, the iconic Playboy nymphette. With his life's work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion--a panoramic record of society like no other. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Neiman, born in 1921, and his older brother were raised their mother in St. Paul, Minnesota. The family was poor even during the Roaring Twenties, the Depression forced the boys to take temporary refuge at their grandparents farm, allowing the family to at least not sink into deeper poverty. Neiman took to the street life early, exploring the city while playing hooky from school. Exploring the state capitol building in Minneapolis he first became intrigued with art. He was puzzled over how it was possible to paint the glass in eyeglasses of the former governors.
After serving in World War Two as a cook, although he was often AWOL, and spending a year with the occupation forces, as a painter, he decided that the GI Bill was his ticket to a better life. He returned to Minneapolis, earned his high school diploma, and went to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago. This was the beginning of a long association between Nieman and the school, he started teaching fashion illustration before he graduated and, as I learned on a visit to Chicago, Nieman recently provided the school with its first student center which opened shortly before his death.
In Chicago, working temporarily as a fashion illustrator, he met, on the same day, Janet Byrne, who he would marry and spend the rest of his life with, and Hugh Hefner, who he would work with until 2008 when Nieman cut back his schedule. I don’t want to simply recap the story of Nieman’s life here, you will enjoy it more in his own words and pictures. Neiman's art and a lifetime of photographs are generously used throughout the book and they are printed in the quality you would expect from the namesake of Columbia University’s LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.
The second half of the book is more memoir than autobiography, by that I mean that the arrangement is more topical than chronological. Neiman's life was too full of five star events and encounters with all types of celebrities be condensed into a book in any other way. His friendships with Ali, Sinatra, and Miss Lillian, President Carter’s mother, provide some of the best stories in the book. Thanks to Neiman's writing style, he has a friendly, conversational voice that is very easy to read, there is no part of the book that I would say was less than entertaining.
According to Neiman he always wanted to paint like Jackson Pollock but “faces kept coming through the paint”. Throughout the book Neiman freely drops the names of artists and works that he admired. Some of those names, like Pollock and George Bellows, I was already familiar with but his descriptions of their works managed to ignite a curiosity about many of the others and I will be looking for them whenever I visit a museum. ( )