Norman Rockwell: A Life
by Claridge, Laura
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375504532
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504532
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2001. xviii, 546 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Spine lightly bumped at the heel. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "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 middle-class 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 Rockwell has never before been the subject of a serious critical biography. Based on private family archives and interviews and publishes to coincide with a major two-year travelling retrospective of his work, this book reveals for the first time the driven workaholic who had three complicated marriages and was a distant father - so different from the loving, all-American-dad image widely held to this day. Critically acclaimed author Laura Claridge also breaks new ground with her reappraisal of Rockwell's art, arguing that despite his popular sentimental style, his artistry was masterful, complex, and far more manipulative than people realize. / Laura Claridge is the author of the 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." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
Synopsis
Laura Claridge is the author of the biography of painter Tamara DeLempicka 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. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124361
- Title
- Norman Rockwell: A Life
- Author
- Claridge, Laura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0375504532
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504532
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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