The Essential Norman Rockwell (Essential Series) [Hardcover]

Collier Schorr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999 | Series: Essential Series

Thirty-two full-color works of a noted graphic artist and manipulator of time, space, and perspective are presented in a attractive, pocket-sized gift volume.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836219325
• ISBN-13: 978-0836219326
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,970,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small, but packed, well written. Defines and defends., June 14, 1999

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Talmadge Moose ([e-mail] (Albemarle and Chapel Hill, North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Norman Rockwell (Essential Series) (Hardcover)

The book is small, but the illustrations still are reproduced extremely well. The essay alone is worth every penny. If you feel uneasy about your love for the work of Norman Rockwell, this book will give you the courage to like what you really like, without any more appologies. Buy it, read it, enjoy. You will, I guarantee.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WORKS OF TIMELESS VALUES AND TOLERANCE, February 28, 2004

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Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential: Norman Rockwell (Essential (Harry N. Abrams)) (Hardcover)

Perhaps more than any other contemporary artist Norman Rockwell enjoys popular mass appeal with his warm scenes of Americana. His Saturday Evening Post covers, which he created for more than four decades, enchanted a generation, as he painted his particular visions of daily life.

His work bespeaks timeless values and tolerance, so much so that one of his ads was borrowed by an AIDS activist group to promote safe-sex awareness. What would Rockwell himself have thought of this? His son, Tom, said, "One of the things my father was associated with was tolerance. So I think it's fairly easy to know what he would have said."

5.0 out of 5 stars Norman Rockwell by Montgomery, January 23, 2004

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Joseph S. Maresca "Dr. Joseph S. Maresca CPA,... (Bronxville, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norman Rockwell (Hardcover)

The work shows important illustrations for the Saturday Evening
Post, his wedding and the Art Director's Club. Famous illustrations; such as, the New Tavern Sign are depicted.An
illustration of "A Family Tree" is presented in full color
together with other famous renditions of the artist. The Spirit
of Education and the Airplane Trip are presented in full color.
These were famous presentations in the Saturday Evening Post of
the 1930s. There is a famous Christmas illustration from 1929
and the "Dreams of Chivalry". The famous "Golden Rule" is
presented together with "The Prom Dress" and "The Outing".
This is an important work for ownership by anyone interested
in the modern artwork of the previous century.