Rockwell

by Norman Rockwell, Taschen (Creator)

Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualité qui ne demandent qu'à être encadrées. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune décrite brièvement. Garanties pour éclairer le quotidien, ce sont également d'excellents cadeaux pour les amoureux d'art.

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was reproduced less than others of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series.

Reviews

[José Azuaje-FIdalgo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Norman Rockwell’s visual lexicon distills the ethos of quintessential Americana, capturing both the idealism and the quiet contradictions of mid-century American life. Far from being mere sentimentalism, his compositions offer a sociological tableau—scenes of everyday domesticity, civic rituals, and interpersonal tensions that speak to national identity in flux. The TASCHEN portfolio elevates these works into art-historical documents: not just aesthetically charming, but anthropologically revealing. Each image becomes a cultural artifact—framed not only by physical borders but by the moral and emotional architecture of an America imagined, remembered, and longed for.

— José Azuaje-Fidalgo