American mirror: the life and art of Norman Rockwell
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New York, N.Y. : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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Book
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First Picador edition.
Physical Desc:
xvii, 493 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Description
"In American mirror, biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon draws on unpublished papers to explore the relationship between Rockwell's anguished creativity and his genius for reflecting American innocence ...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.
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9781250056139, 1250056136
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-468) and index.
Description
"In American mirror, biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon draws on unpublished papers to explore the relationship between Rockwell's anguished creativity and his genius for reflecting American innocence ...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.
Awards
"A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography, shortlisted for the 2014 Pen literary award for biography"--Cover.
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Solomon, D. (2014). American mirror: the life and art of Norman Rockwell. First Picador edition. Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Solomon, Deborah. 2014. American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Solomon, Deborah, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Solomon, Deborah. American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. First Picador edition. Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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). | |
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