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Norman Rockwell : The Underside of Innocence by Richard Halpern (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226314405
ISBN-139780226314402
eBay Product ID (ePID)47851277
Product Key Features
Book TitleNorman Rockwell : the Underside of Innocence
Number of Pages218 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Artists / General, American / General
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorRichard Halpern
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-036794
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsRockwell and his images remain central to twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, too popular to ignore and yet, as Halpern reveals, more complex than many concede.
Dewey Decimal759.13
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Note to Readers 1 Manufacturing Innocence 2 Ways of Not Seeing 3 Phallic Women, Adam's Apples, and the Fullness of the World 4 " That Kind of Man" 5 The History of Girls 6 Painting: A Middlebrow Art 7 Rockwell's Heirs Notes Index
SynopsisNorman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do agree on one thing: his art embodies a distinctively American style of innocence. In this sure-to-be controversial book, Richard Halpern argues that this sense of innocence arises from our reluctance--and also Rockwell's--to acknowledge the often disturbing dimensions of his works. Rockwell's paintings frequently teem with perverse acts of voyeurism and desire but contrive to keep these acts invisible--or rather, hidden in plain sight, available for unacknowledged pleasure but easily denied by the viewer. Rockwell emerges in this book, then, as a deviously brilliant artist, a remorseless diagnostician of the innocence in which we bathe ourselves, and a continuing, unexpected influence on contemporary artists. Far from a banal painter of the ordinary, Halpern argues, Rockwell is someone we have not yet dared to see for the complex creature he is: a wholesome pervert, a knowing innocent, and a kitschy genius. Provocative but judicious, witty but deeply informed, Norman Rockwell is a book rich in suggestive propositions and eye-opening details--one that will change forever the way we think about this American icon and his works.
LC Classification NumberND237.R68H35 2006
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