Norman Rockwell

by Collier Schorr and Dashka Slater

Here's a series of quick, savvy, entertaining books on artists and pop culture at a popular price. It's for readers who want easy access to information and who are turned off by art-world jargon.With cutting-edge tone and text, these innovative, richly illustrated, compact books (6 x 6 gift size) are targeted at busy people who've heard of these much-discussed artists -- and who know that many people, for some reason, think these artists are important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836219325
• ISBN13: 9780836219326
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cader Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

WORKS OF TIMELESS VALUES AND TOLERANCE

Perhaps more than any other contemporary artist Norman Rockwell enjoys popular mass appeal with his warm scenes of Americana. His Saturday Evening Post covers, which he created for more than four decades, enchanted a generation, as he painted his particular visions of daily life. His work bespeaks timeless values and tolerance, so much so that one of his ads was borrowed by an AIDS activist group to promote safe-sex awareness. What would Rockwell himself have thought of this? His son, Tom, said, "One of the things my father was associated with was tolerance. So I think it's fairly easy to know what he would have said."

Norman Rockwell by Montgomery

The work shows important illustrations for the Saturday EveningPost, his wedding and the Art Director's Club. Famous illustrations; such as, the New Tavern Sign are depicted.Anillustration of "A Family Tree" is presented in full colortogether with other famous renditions of the artist. The Spiritof Education and the Airplane Trip are presented in full color.These were famous presentations in the Saturday Evening Post ofthe 1930s. There is a famous Christmas illustration from 1929and the "Dreams of Chivalry". The famous "Golden Rule" ispresented together with "The Prom Dress" and "The Outing".This is an important work for ownership by anyone interestedin the modern artwork of the previous century.

Intersting, fascinating and joyful.

I thought this book of Norman Rockwell's work was a fascinatining look into the typical/almost idealistic life of everyday embarrassing/comical/poignant situations which do commonly occur. The picture I enjoyed the most was "The Gossips" where upon I could imagine the tale behind the laughter and enjoy looking at the different facial expressions and that there was such a great twist to the tale. Thank you for such a great book!.

Small, but packed, well written. Defines and defends.

The book is small, but the illustrations still are reproduced extremely well. The essay alone is worth every penny. If you feel uneasy about your love for the work of Norman Rockwell, this book will give you the courage to like what you really like, without any more appologies. Buy it, read it, enjoy. You will, I guarantee.