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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Norman Rockwell; Norman Rockwell; Norman Rockwell; Norman Rockwell; Norman Rockwell |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Halpern |
ISBN: | 0226314405 9780226314402 |
OCLC Number: | 62732641 |
Description: | xv, 201 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Manufacturing innocence -- Ways of not seeing -- Phallic women, Adam's apples, and the fullness of the world -- That kind of man -- The history of girls -- Painting: a middlebrow art -- Rockwell's heirs. |
Other Titles: | Underside of innocence |
Responsibility: | Richard Halpern. |
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Abstract:
"Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are still 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 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."--Jacket.
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