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<p><P>Norman Rockwell&#8217;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&#58; his art embodies a distinctively American style of innocence.&nbsp;<br><br>In this sure-to-be controversial book, Richard Halpern argues that this sense of innocence arises from our reluctance&#8212;and also Rockwell&#8217;s&#8212;to acknowledge the often disturbing dimensions of his works. Rockwell&#8217;s paintings frequently teem with perverse acts of voyeurism and desire but contrive to keep these acts invisible&#8212;or rather, hidden in plain sight, available for unacknowledged pleasure but easily denied by the viewer.&nbsp;<br><br>Rockwell emerges in this book, then,&nbsp;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&#58; a wholesome p

Author

Halpern, Richard., Richard Halpern

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226314402

Subjects

Art, Psychology, Arts