Deborah Solomon
Author of Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
About the Author
Deborah Solomon is a nationally acclaimed art critic, journalist, and biographer. She writes primarily for the New York Times, and her weekly iron, "Questions For," ran in the New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011. Her art reviews appear regularly on WNYC Radio, lives in New York City with her show more family. show less
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- Rating
- 4.2
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- 24
I was short of time and mostly skimmed through the book, mostly stopping to read paragraphs pertaining to featured illustrations. They explained to me, rather uninitiated to depths of American XX cent. culture, the true meaning and circumstances of many of his cult paintings. Although as a great artist he made humor and emotions of his paintings universally understandable, precisely the book's comments helped a lot with the contexts, guaranteeing a far larger satisfaction with every picture. Stories of how such and such painting was concieved or how the casting and the actual drawing process unfolded, what reception it got from models, critics and public provided better understandiing and insights into both America's and Rockwell's life.
I am sure my readers would enjoy my retelling of the circumstances of appearing of "The Russian Classroom". And since I'm from Moscow, maybe we'll manage to find actual models, who sat for the artist.
And until I started reading people's reviews here, was I unaware of author's speculations re artist's intimate life. I gleaned tons of valuable information, but these bits went under my radar. Maybe it is because you already know so much about Rockwell, his art and contexts, that those paragraphs marr your perception of the entire work?… (more)