"THE BEST OF NORMAN ROCKWELL" par Michael SCHAU. Editions Bonanza Books, New York. 1979. Imprimé au Japon. Grand in-4, couverture toilée grise sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs (état d'usage). Non paginé (86p). Texte en anglais de Michael Schau, illustré de 40 reproductions photographiques couleurs, pleine page, de travaux de Norman Rockwell.

 

"Norman Rockwell observed life with an unabashed frankness and poignancy that enabled him to capture in his art the most touching moments of everyday life. His illustrations gather all the innocence, tenderness, joy, and humor of life into such realistic and personal situations that the viewer feels he has entered a familiar setting in which the action has briefly paused. In this volume, forty of Rockwell's full-color illustrations are beautifully reproduced and displayed on poster-sized sheets suitable for framing. These illustrations, many of which appeared as the celebrated covers of The Saturday Evening Post, are representative of the best of Rockwell's work. Among the scores of American illustrators who won fame in the first half of the century, surely the most enduring and most beloved is Norman Rockwell. In the days when lavishly illustrated mass magazines were stuffed into tens of millions of mailboxes every week, an amazing number of skilled artists competed for attention on magazine covers and on the pages inside. Rockwell was one of many "name" illustrators. But today most of these names are remembered only by insiders - by artists, editors, and collectors - while Norman Rockwell is as much a household word as ever. What is it that separates a great illustrator from the many good ones? What carries an illustrator's fame from one era to the next? Rockwell draws with astonishing precision and applies paint with great polish - but so could they all. He is a master of pictorial design - but so were lots of others. He has a splendid sense of humor; an eye for the quirky expression in a face or the revealing gesture of a hand; a sense of drama. But these are the professional skills of virtually every successful illustrator. Skills are not enough to explain a great illustrator…"

 

Ref LIL0172