Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
By: Eleanor Nairne
4.56
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic and forward thinking, this unconventional retrospective monograph takes its cues from Alice…
Want to ReadIf you liked the art plot in Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle by Eleanor Nairne , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Things I Don't Want to Know book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
2. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
3. The World According to Garp
By: John Irving
4.10
Format: 610 pages, Hardcover
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead o… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in John Irving's The World According to Garp book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
"...energy begets energy."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
4. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
5. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
6. Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
By: Phoebe Hoban
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Alice Neel liked to say that she wasthe century and in many ways she was. She was born into a prope… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Phoebe Hoban's Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
7. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
Want to Read $ 2.82Similar categories in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
8. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
By: Bridget Quinn
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bridget Quinn's Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
9. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
10. A God in Ruins
By: Kate Atkinson
1.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
11. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
12. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Han Kang's Greek Lessons book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
13. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's The Young Man book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
14. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- history
- nonfiction
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
15. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
Want to Read $ 9.66Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
16. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
17. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
18. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- nonfiction
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
19. Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.10
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love,… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tove Ditlevsen's Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1) book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
"Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Jokin ahdistaa rintaani kun kiipeän portaita ylös. Ihmiselämän nurja puoli ammottaa entistä avoimempana minua vasten, ja sitä on entistä vaikeampi kattaa niillä kirjoittamattomilla, vapisevilla sanoi…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Aikuisten lapsuus roikkuu repaleisena ja puhkottuna heidän sisimmässään kuin käytetty ja koinsyömä matto jota kukaan ei ajattele eikä tarvitse. Heistä ei näe että heillä on ollut lapsuus, eikä heiltä…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
20. A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #1)
By: Dianne Freeman
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this exciting historical mystery debut set in Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounter… read more
Want to Read $ 9.21Similar categories in Dianne Freeman's A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #1) book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
21. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
Want to Read $ 30.88Similar categories in Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- history
- nonfiction
22. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Olivia Laing's Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- nonfiction
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
23. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- biography
- nonfiction
24. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Jerry Saltz's How to Be an Artist book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- nonfiction
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
25. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
26. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
By: Katy Kelleher
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Katy Kelleher's The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- history
- nonfiction
27. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Caleb Femi's Poor book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- nonfiction
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
28. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- history
- nonfiction
29. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
30. Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
By: Eleanor Nairne
4.56
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic and forward thinking, this unconventional retrospective monograph takes its cues from Alice… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
31. An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters (Opinionated Guides)
By: Lucy Davies
4.67
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
None read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lucy Davies's An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters (Opinionated Guides) book and Eleanor Nairne's Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle
