Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers (Tiny Folio, 11)

Finch, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0789204096 / ISBN 13: 9780789204097

Edité par Abbeville Press, 1997

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Synopsis :

A magnificent new printing of this classic album of Norman Rockwell's best-loved works with full-colour captions in the Tiny Folio series

There are few more satisfying sights on a city street than a well-stocked news-stand, hung with a hundred or more magazines and periodicals, each competing for the attention of the potential customer. The American magazine cover enjoyed a Golden Age during the period that opened with the high-speed colour press, and ended when subscription sales grew to paramount importance. Dozens of gifted artists made their reputations in this field. None of them, however, achieved the immense and sustained popular success enjoyed by Norman Rockwell.

Although technically he was an academic painter, he had the eye of a photographer and, as he became a mature artist, he used this eye to give us a picture of America that was familiar - astonishingly so - and at the same time unique. The picture seemed familiar because it was everyone's dream of America; it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. Rockwell held up a friendly mirror to the society he lived in, and Americans have looked into this glass and seen themselves as warm, decent, hard-working citizens of a country bountiful enough to accommodate their boundless optimism.

Rockwell best expressed this vision of America in his justly famous cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, painted between 1916 and 1963. All of his Post covers are reproduced in splendid full colour in this oversized volume, with commentaries by Christopher Finch, the noted writer on art and popular culture.

In this latest printing of 332 Magazine Covers, the thumbnail images accompanying Finch's descriptive captions are printed in full colour for the convenience of the reader, and the typography has been refreshed.

À propos de l'auteur: Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America. Recently he has embarked on a series of noir-inflected mystery novels set in New York in the late 1960s and featuring the private investigator Alex Novalis. The first of these, Good Girl, Bad Girl, is to be published by Thomas & Mercer in 2013. These books draw on his own experiences in the New York art world at a time when today's SoHo was an urban wilderness with rats frolicking in the gutters and artists eking out a living in barren loft spaces. He is married to Linda Rosenkrantz, an author and a co-founder of the website Nameberry.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers (Tiny ...
Éditeur : Abbeville Press
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : good