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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> NORMAN ROCKWELL IS A MASTER OF THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION an art that he helped transform as technical advances that occurred during his lifetime brought high-quality color reproduction to the newsstands of the world. It is almost impossible however to discuss him simply as an artist and innovator because by some mysterious chemistry the images he created have become part of the fabric of our popular culture. He 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. There are those who object that Rockwell’s mirror is of the distorting variety and this may be true; but it could be argued that exactly the same can be said of many of the masters of for example the Italian Renaissance. When Andrea Mantegna immortalized the Gonzaga family on the walls of the Ducal Palace in Mantua he undoubtedly idealized his patrons lending them a nobility that had as much to do with their aspirations as with the everyday realities of their existence. This is not to say that the Gonzagas’ aspirations were unreal or absurd. They reflected the ideals of the day and Mantegna had the ability to make these ideals a reality if only in paint and plaster. (SP)