American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell

by Deborah Solomon

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374113092
• ISBN13: 9780374113094
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"