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American mirror : the life and art of Norman Rockwell / Deborah Solomon.
LIBRA ND237.R68 S65 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Deborah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.
- Rockwell, Norman.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- United States.
- Illustrators--United States--Biography.
- Illustrators.
- Art--history.
- Famous Persons.
- Mental Disorders.
- Psychotherapy--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Art--history.
- United States.
- Famous Persons.
- Mental Disorders.
- Psychotherapy--history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 493 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- "The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Welcome to Rockwell Land
- The Bird Man of Yonkers (1830 to 1888)
- Not a Norman Rockwell Childhood (1894 to 1911)
- The Art Students League (September 1911 to 1912)
- The Boy Scouts Versus the Armory Show (September 1912 to December 1913)
- New Rochelle, Art Capital of the World (1914 to 1916)
- Irene O'Connor, or Uncle Sam Wants You (1916 to 1918)
- Billy Payne (May 1919 to Summer 1920)
- Miss America (1922 to 1923)
- The Arrow Collar Man (1924 to 1925)
- Divorce (1926 to 1929)
- Mary Barstow (Spring 1930 to September 1932)
- The New Deal (1933 to 1935)
- Hello Life (Fall 1936 to 1938)
- Arlington, Vermont (November 1938 to Summer 1942)
- The Four Freedoms (May 1942 to May 1943)
- "Slowly Fell the Picket Fence" (June 1943 to Summer 1947)
- "We're Looking for People Who Like to Draw" (October 1948)
- Grandma Moses (1948 to 1949)
- Shuffleton's Barbershop (1950 to 1953)
- The Age of Erik Erikson (1954)
- Crack-Up (1955)
- Young Man Luther (1957 to 1959)
- Rockwell Tells His Life Story (1959)
- Widowhood, or The Golden Rule (1960)
- Meet Molly (1961)
- Rockwell Departs from the Post (1962 to 1963)
- Ruby Bridges (1964)
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Art Critic (1964 to 1967)
- The Vietnam War (1965 to 1967)
- Alice's Restaurant (1967)
- Andy Warhol & Company (Fall 1968)
- The Brooklyn Museum (1969 to 1972)
- "But I Want to Go to My Studio" (1972 to 1978).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-468) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374113094
- 0374113092
- OCLC:
- 849641528
- Online:
- Cover image
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