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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a duplicate response. The writing traffics through a range of subjects, such as racial injustice, Neiman’s relationship with his brother Earl, and work with Playboy magazine. Little of the remark proves either…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a personal account of the artist’s commission at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Overall, the writing knits personal anecdote into what might be considered more general aesthetic theory. Neiman opens the…

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Within this note from LeRoy Neiman, the artist narrativizes his own work. Despite the remark’s brevity, it projects a theme of paradox. The nature of the remark is unknown.

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This note from LeRoy Neiman comments on the critical reception of Jules Pascin. Through the writings of art historian Marcel Bernheim, Neiman attributes prior ridicule of Pascin to the artist’s interest in brothels. Neiman himself not only took…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at commedia dell'arte character, Brighella. Brighella, coming out of Zanni (the stock servant), is a middle class figure marked by preternatural lust, greediness, and a propensity to tell falsehoods; overall, he is…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a remark on artist Willam Hogarth. The record contains three sections: first, a comment on Hogarth’s class consciousness, second, anecdotal evidence of the artist’s draw to satire, and third, a citing of a study…
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