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Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell( )
Author: Claridge, Laura
ISBN:978-1-299-18228-8
Publication Date:Jan 2001
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $50.85
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Norman Rockwell's tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a "mere illustrator"-a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew for The Sunday Evening Post. Symptomatic of critics' neglect is the fact that...
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Claridge, Laura (Author)
Laura Claridge is the author of a biography of painter Tamara De Lempicka as well as books on British Romanticism, Modernism, gender, and psychoanalytic theory. A popular international lecturer, she was professor of English literature at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, for eleven years. She lives in New York City.

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