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Book Title
American Mirror : the Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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2013
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Deborah Solomon
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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American Mirror : the Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
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512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
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Individual Artists / General, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Yes
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Art, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Deborah Solomon
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Deborah Solomon's beautiful, complex life of Norman Rockwell shows how his beloved pictures--many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post-- expressed Americans' hopes for the nation, even though they did not often show the real America., Don't be fooled by the controversy into thinking that this book is about Rockwell's sexual impulses. It isn't. Solomon traces his evolution as an artist, laying it alongside struggles in his own life. The result is a fascinating portrait of an underappreciated and often ridiculed artist., In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon has set herself, pointillist detail by detail, to unraveling the mystery of Norman Rockwell--the friendliest of painters who turns out to be the most complex of men. This is that rarest of books: the biography as page-turner, leading you effortlessly onwards., Deborah Solomon has done the culture a huge favor by placing Norman Rockwell among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. She reveals Rockwell in all his contradictions--celebrant of family values but indifferent husband, self-professed New Englander but restless traveler, apolitical for most of his life but by the end a passionate believer in civil rights. This is a great biography of a singular American genius, who has long deserved it., Norman Rockwell turns out not to have lived in the America he invented, the republic of station wagons, Santa Claus, and good citizenship. Deborah Solomon offers up a textured portrait of the man who carried no pictures of his family and never met a therapist he didn't like. Solomon masters foreground, background, and middle ground in this taut, beautifully written biography., "Deborah Solomon has created a biography as vivid and touching as a Rockwell interior. This is the definitive biography of an American master who came in through the back door." - Steve Martin , author of An Object of Beauty "American Mirror is a masterpiece-vivid, forthright and insightful. Through superb research and keen interpretation, Deborah Solomon tells the story of an artist so many thought they knew well, and perhaps did not know at all. An epic achievement." - Laurie Norton Moffatt , director of the Norman Rockwell Museum "Norman Rockwell turns out not to have lived in the America he invented, the republic of station wagons, Santa Claus, and good citizenship. Deborah Solomon offers up a textured portrait of the man who carried no pictures of his family and never met a therapist he didn't like. Solomon masters foreground, background, and middle ground in this taut, beautifully written biography."  - Stacy Schiff , author of Cleopatra: A Life and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Norman Rockwell remains our country's most beloved, most reviled, and most misunderstood painter.  In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon tells his remarkable story with uncommon intelligence and grace."  - Roz Chast ,  New Yorker cartoonist "Deborah Solomon has done the culture a huge favor by placing Norman Rockwell among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. She reveals Rockwell in all his contradictions-celebrant of family values but indifferent husband, self-professed New Englander but restless traveler, apolitical for most of his life but by the end a passionate believer in civil rights. This is a great biography of a singular American genius, who has long deserved it." - Bruce McCall , New Yorker illustrator "In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon has set herself, pointillist detail by detail, to unraveling the mystery of Norman Rockwell-the friendliest of painters who turns out to be the most complex of men. This is that rarest of books: the biography as page-turner, leading you effortlessly onwards." - Daphne Merkin , author of Enchantment "Deborah Solomon's beautiful, complex life of Norman Rockwell shows how his beloved pictures-many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post- expressed Americans' hopes for the nation, even though they did not often show the real America." - Alan Brinkley , author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Praise for Utopia Parkway "As perfectly composed, richly nuanced and quietly surprising as one of Cornell's boxes." - Chicago Tribune "Deborah Solomon brings to [Cornell's] life a lucid intelligence, an incisive knowledge of art history and a rare sensibility. Her generous understanding illuminates Cornell as a knight errant of art." - The Washington Post, In her engaging and ultimately sad biography of Norman Rockwell, Deborah Solomon fills in the partly known life of one of America's most famous and popular illustrator-artists . . . Ms. Solomon's book fully justifies a fresh look at his life. An art critic and author of biographies of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock and a frequent contributor to The New York Times , she offers something new, entertaining and disturbing . Her challenge was to explain a life utterly different from Rockwell's humorous and optimistic paintings. She has told his story with a breadth of facts and narrative finesse. It is a revelation., "In her engaging and ultimately sad biography of Norman Rockwell, Deborah Solomon fills in the partly known life of one of America's most famous and popular illustrator-artists . . . Ms. Solomon's book fully justifies a fresh look at his life. An art critic and author of biographies of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock and a frequent contributor to The New York Times , she offers something new, entertaining and disturbing . Her challenge was to explain a life utterly different from Rockwell's humorous and optimistic paintings. She has told his story with a breadth of facts and narrative finesse. It is a revelation. " -John Wilmerding, The New York Times   "Deborah Solomon has created a biography as vivid and touching as a Rockwell interior. This is the definitive biography of an American master who came in through the back door." - Steve Martin , author of An Object of Beauty "American Mirror is a masterpiece-vivid, forthright and insightful. Through superb research and keen interpretation, Deborah Solomon tells the story of an artist so many thought they knew well, and perhaps did not know at all. An epic achievement." - Laurie Norton Moffatt , director of the Norman Rockwell Museum "Norman Rockwell turns out not to have lived in the America he invented, the republic of station wagons, Santa Claus, and good citizenship. Deborah Solomon offers up a textured portrait of the man who carried no pictures of his family and never met a therapist he didn't like. Solomon masters foreground, background, and middle ground in this taut, beautifully written biography."  - Stacy Schiff , author of Cleopatra: A Life and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Norman Rockwell remains our country's most beloved, most reviled, and most misunderstood painter.  In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon tells his remarkable story with uncommon intelligence and grace."  - Roz Chast ,  New Yorker cartoonist "Deborah Solomon has done the culture a huge favor by placing Norman Rockwell among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. She reveals Rockwell in all his contradictions-celebrant of family values but indifferent husband, self-professed New Englander but restless traveler, apolitical for most of his life but by the end a passionate believer in civil rights. This is a great biography of a singular American genius, who has long deserved it." - Bruce McCall , New Yorker illustrator "In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon has set herself, pointillist detail by detail, to unraveling the mystery of Norman Rockwell-the friendliest of painters who turns out to be the most complex of men. This is that rarest of books: the biography as page-turner, leading you effortlessly onwards." - Daphne Merkin , author of Enchantment "Deborah Solomon's beautiful, complex life of Norman Rockwell shows how his beloved pictures-many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post- expressed Americans' hopes for the nation, even though they did not often show the real America." - Alan Brinkley , author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century "Esteemed art critic and biographer Solomon turns our perception of Norman Rockwell inside out in this fast-paced yet richly interpretative inquiry . . . Solomon's penetrating and commanding biography is brimming with surprising details and provocative juxtapositions." - Donna Seaman , Booklist (starred review), [A] highly readable, illuminating book . . . Solomon is blessedly free of art-world blather or snobbery, writing in a style that balances elegance, irony and straightforward storytelling., [Deborah Solomon's] Rockwell biography is well-researched; her prose intelligent, accessible and touched occasionally with humor; her readings of Rockwell's paintings sharp and sensible., [ American Mirror ] is a biography of the highest caliber . . . Solomon's intimate language is complemented by brisk pacing, providing a narrative that feels refreshing, nimble, and keyed into the present., [A] wonderful biography. . . . [Deborah Solomon] does a beautiful job of rescuing a man who became something of a cliche and making him fresh again., Deborah Solomon has created a biography as vivid and touching as a Rockwell interior. This is the definitive biography of an American master who came in through the back door., In anticipation of Thanksgiving, every American who cherishes the traditions that make this country great should acquire a copy of American Mirror , Deborah Solomon's brilliantly insightful chronicle of the life of illustrator Norman Rockwell., Esteemed art critic and biographer Solomon turns our perception of Norman Rockwell inside out in this fast-paced yet richly interpretative inquiry . . . Solomon's penetrating and commanding biography is brimming with surprising details and provocative juxtapositions., Rockwell is a beloved figure in American art, and Solomon's compelling portrait offers the attention and insight that this complex man deserves., "Deborah Solomon has created a biography as vivid and touching as a Rockwell interior. This is the definitive biography of an American master who came in through the back door." - Steve Martin , author of An Object of Beauty "American Mirror is a masterpiece-vivid, forthright and insightful. Through superb research and keen interpretation, Deborah Solomon tells the story of an artist so many thought they knew well, and perhaps did not know at all. An epic achievement." - Laurie Norton Moffatt , director of the Norman Rockwell Museum "Norman Rockwell turns out not to have lived in the America he invented, the republic of station wagons, Santa Claus, and good citizenship. Deborah Solomon offers up a textured portrait of the man who carried no pictures of his family and never met a therapist he didn't like. Solomon masters foreground, background, and middle ground in this taut, beautifully written biography."  - Stacy Schiff , author of Cleopatra: A Life and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Norman Rockwell remains our country's most beloved, most reviled, and most misunderstood painter.  In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon tells his remarkable story with uncommon intelligence and grace."  - Roz Chast ,  New Yorker cartoonist "Deborah Solomon has done the culture a huge favor by placing Norman Rockwell among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. She reveals Rockwell in all his contradictions-celebrant of family values but indifferent husband, self-professed New Englander but restless traveler, apolitical for most of his life but by the end a passionate believer in civil rights. This is a great biography of a singular American genius, who has long deserved it." - Bruce McCall , New Yorker illustrator "In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon has set herself, pointillist detail by detail, to unraveling the mystery of Norman Rockwell-the friendliest of painters who turns out to be the most complex of men. This is that rarest of books: the biography as page-turner, leading you effortlessly onwards." - Daphne Merkin , author of Enchantment "Deborah Solomon's beautiful, complex life of Norman Rockwell shows how his beloved pictures-many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post- expressed Americans' hopes for the nation, even though they did not often show the real America." - Alan Brinkley , author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century "Esteemed art critic and biographer Solomon turns our perception of Norman Rockwell inside out in this fast-paced yet richly interpretative inquiry . . . Solomon's penetrating and commanding biography is brimming with surprising details and provocative juxtapositions." - Donna Seaman , Booklist (starred review), Norman Rockwell remains our country's most beloved, most reviled, and most misunderstood painter. In American Mirror , Deborah Solomon tells his remarkable story with uncommon intelligence and grace., American Mirror is a masterpiece--vivid, forthright and insightful. Through superb research and keen interpretation, Deborah Solomon tells the story of an artist so many thought they knew well, and perhaps did not know at all. An epic achievement.
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Synopsis
"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., "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 façade 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.
LC Classification Number
ND237.R68S65 2014
Copyright Date
2014
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