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Author:
Solomon, Deborah, author.
Title:
American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell / Deborah Solomon.
Edition:
First Picador edition.
Publisher:
Picador/FarrarStraus and Giroux,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xvii, 493 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Subject:
Rockwell, Norman,--1894-1978.
Painters--United States--Biography.
Illustrators--United States--Biography.
Rockwell, Norman,--1894-1978.
Illustrators.
Painters.
United States.
Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-468) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Welcome to Rockwell land -- The bird man of Yonkers (1830 to 1888) -- Not a Norman Rockwell childhood (1894 to 1911 -- The Art Students League (September 1911 to 1912) -- The Boy Scouts versus the Armory Show (September 1912 to December 1913) -- New Rochelle, art capital of the world (1914 to 1916) -- Irene O'Connor, or Uncle Sam wants you (1916 to 1918) -- Billy Payne (May 1919 to Summer 1920) -- Miss America (1922 to 1923) -- The Arrow Collar Man (1924 to 1925) -- Divorce (1926 to 1929) -- Mary Barstow (Spring 1930 to September 1932) -- The New Deal (1933 to 1935) -- Hello Life (Fall 1936 to 1938) -- Arlington, Vermont (November 1938 to Summer 1942) -- The Four freedoms (May 1942 to May 1943) -- "Slowly fell the picket fence" (June 1943 to Summer 1947) -- "We're looking for people who like to draw" (October 1948) -- Grandma Moses (1948 to 1949) -- Shuffleton's Barbershop (1950 to 1953) -- The Age of Erik Erikson (1954) -- Crack-up (1955) -- Young man Luther (1957 to 1959) -- Rockwell tells his life story (1959) -- Widowhood, or The golden rule (1960) -- Meet Molly (1961) -- Rockwell departs from the Post (1962 to 1963) -- Ruby Bridges (1964) -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, art critic (1964 to 1967) -- The Vietnam War (1965 to 1967) -- Alice's Restaurant (1967) -- Andy Warhol & company (Fall 1968) -- The Brooklyn Museum (1969 to 1972) -- "But I want to go to my studio" (1972 to 1978).
Summary:
"In American mirror, biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon draws on unpublished papers to explore the relationship between Rockwell's anguished creativity and his genius for reflecting American innocence ... [The author] explains why Norman Rockwell deserves to be remembered as a master of the first rank"--Cover.
ISBN:
1250056136
9781250056139
OCLC:
(OCoLC)868643184
Locations:
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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