1979 Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers Tiny Folios Book

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Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers Tiny Folios Book
by Christopher Finch
ABBEVILLE PRESS • PUBLISHERS NEW YORK • LONDON • … Read more Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers Tiny Folios Book
by Christopher Finch
ABBEVILLE PRESS • PUBLISHERS NEW YORK • LONDON • PARIS
First edition Tiny Folios" format, fifth printing.
Copyright 1979 by Cross River Press, Ltd.
At the outset of his career, Norman
_ Rockwell was not the most likely candidate for long-term celebrity: he was just one of many skillful illustrators working within the conventions of the day. But there was something tenacious about his vision, and something uncanny about his access to the wellsprings of public taste. Although technically he was an academic painter. he had the eye of a photographer and, as he became a mature artist, he used this eye to give us a picture of America that was familiar— astonishingly so-and at the same time unique.
It seemed familiar because it was everyone's dream of America: and it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. This was, perhaps, an America that never existed, but it was an America the public wanted to exist. And Rockwell put it together from elements that were there for everyone to see.
Rockwell helped preserve American myths, but, more than that, he recreated them and made them palatable for new generations. His function was to reassure people, to remind them of old values in times of rapid change.
4 1/2” H x 4 1/8” W x 1” D See less