Telling stories : Norman Rockwell : from the collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg /
Mecklenburg, Virginia M.(Virginia McCord),1946-
McCarthy, Todd.
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
New York : Abrams ; Washington, D.C. : In association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
c2010.
Rockwell was a master humorist with an infallible sense of the dramatic moment. His single-image scenarios represented climatic moments that implied prior and succeeding events in ongoing plots. The authors trace Rockwell's career, explores his fascination with Hollywood, and draw parallels between Rockwell's subjects and those of Hollywood directors, including Lucas and Spielberg.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index.
Rockwell was a master humorist with an infallible sense of the dramatic moment. His single-image scenarios represented climatic moments that implied prior and succeeding events in ongoing plots. The authors trace Rockwell's career, explores his fascination with Hollywood, and draw parallels between Rockwell's subjects and those of Hollywood directors, including Lucas and Spielberg.
Foreword / Elizabeth Brown -- Mythmakers ; Telling stories / Virginia M. Mecklenburg -- Norman Rockwell's camera eye / Todd McCarthy.
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978
Lucas, George, 1944-
Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
Narrative art