Norman Rockwell : the underside of innocence / Richard Halpern.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xv, 201 p. : ill. ports. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0226314405 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Underside of innocence
- 759.13 22
- ND237.R68 H35 2006
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 759.13 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A429013B |
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759.13 GUS Philip Guston retrospective / | 759.13 HAL Peter Halley : collected essays, 1981-1987. | 759.13 HAL Peter Halley : paintings 1989-1992 : exhibition / | 759.13 HAL Norman Rockwell : the underside of innocence / | 759.13 HEL Al Held / | 759.13 HER "The heroine Paint" : after Frankenthaler / | 759.13 HOF Hans Hofmann / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Manufacturing innocence -- Ways of not seeing -- Phallic women, Adam's apples, and the fullness of the world -- That kind of man -- History of girls -- Painting: a middlebrow art -- Rockwell's heirs.
"Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are still among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do agree on one thing: his art embodies a distinctively American style of innocence." "In this book, Richard Halpern argues that this sense of innocence arises from our reluctance - and also Rockwell's - to acknowledge the often disturbing dimensions of his works. Rockwell's paintings frequently teem with perverse acts of voyeurism and desire but contrive to keep these acts invisible - or rather, hidden in plain sight, available for unacknowledged pleasure but easily denied by the viewer." "Rockwell emerges in this book, then, as a deviously brilliant artist, a remorseless diagnostician of the innocence in which we bathe ourselves, and a continuing, unexpected influence on contemporary artists. Far from a banal painter of the ordinary, Halpern argues, Rockwell is someone we have not yet dared to see for the complex creature he is: a wholesome pervert, a knowing innocent, and a kitschy genius."--BOOK JACKET.
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