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Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence Hardback - 2006

by Richard Halpern

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Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are 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 sure-to-be controversial 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.


Provocative but judicious, witty but deeply informed, Norman Rockwell is a book rich in suggestive propositions and eye-opening details--one that will change forever the way we think about this American icon and his works.

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  • Title Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence
  • Author Richard Halpern
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226314402 / 0226314405
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.32 x 0.76 in (23.47 x 16.05 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Rockwell, Norman - Criticism and, Rockwell, Norman - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005036794
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.13

About the author

Richard Halpern is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author several books, including Shakespeare among the Moderns and Shakespeare's Perfume.

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