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100 1  Solomon, Deborah,|eauthor. 
245 10 American mirror :|bthe life and art of Norman Rockwell
       |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cDeborah Solomon. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2013. 
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511 0  Performance by Andrea Gallo. 
520    Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the 
       introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography 
       of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with
       a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The
       Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman 
       Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that 
       reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of 
       American democracy. Freckled Boy Scouts and their mutts, 
       sprightly grandmothers, a young man standing up to speak 
       at a town hall meeting, a little black girl named Ruby 
       Bridges walking into an all-white school-- here was an 
       America whose citizens seemed to believe in equality and 
       gladness for all. Who was this man who served as our 
       unofficial " artist in chief" and bolstered our country' s
       national identity? Behind the folksy, pipe-smoking facade 
       lay a surprisingly complex figure-- a lonely painter who 
       suffered from depression and was consumed by a sense of 
       inadequacy. He wound up in treatment with the celebrated 
       psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. In fact, Rockwell moved to 
       Stockbridge, Massachusetts so that he and his wife could 
       be near Austen Riggs, a leading psychiatric hospital. " 
       What' s interesting is how Rockwell' s personal desire for
       inclusion and normalcy spoke to the national desire for 
       inclusion and normalcy," writes Solomon. " His work 
       mirrors his own temperament-- his sense of humor, his fear
       of depths-- and struck Americans as a truer version of 
       themselves than the sallow, solemn, hard-bitten Puritans 
       they knew from eighteenth-century portraits." Deborah 
       Solomon, a biographer and art critic, draws on a wealth of
       unpublished letters and documents to explore the 
       relationship between Rockwell' s despairing personality 
       and his genius for reflecting America' s brightest hopes. 
       " The thrill of his work," she writes, " is that he was 
       able to use a commercial form [that of magazine 
       illustration] to thrash out his private obsessions." In 
       American Mirror, Solomon trains her perceptive eye not 
       only on Rockwell and his art but on the development of 
       visual journalism as it evolved from illustration in the 
       1920s to photography in the 1930s to television in the 
       1950s. She offers vivid cameos of the many famous 
       Americans whom Rockwell counted as friends, including 
       President Dwight Eisenhower, the folk artist Grandma Moses,
       the rock musician Al Kooper, and the generation of now-
       forgotten painters who ushered in the Golden Age of 
       illustration, especially J. C. Leyendecker, the reclusive 
       legend who created the Arrow Collar Man. Although derided 
       by critics in his lifetime as a mere illustrator whose 
       work could not compete with that of the Abstract 
       Expressionists and other modern art movements, Rockwell 
       has since attracted a passionate following in the art 
       world. His faith in the power of storytelling puts his 
       work in sync with the current art scene. American Mirror 
       brilliantly explains why he deserves to be remembered as 
       an American master of the first rank. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Rockwell, Norman,|d1894-1978. 
650  0 Painters|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Illustrators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
700 1  Gallo, Andrea|c(Narrator),|enarrator. 
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