Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Details
About the Author Virginia M. Mecklenburg is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Among her books are Modern Masters, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, and Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which won the Alfred H. Barr Jr. award in 1997. Todd McCarthy is the longtime chief film critic for Variety. His books include Kings of the Bs, Howard Hawks, and Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing. He won an Emmy Award for writing the documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer. Read more
Reviews
I am old enough that I remember Norman Rockwell covers on magazines on the newstands. I loved his pictures.I have a collection of art books on Norman Rockwell and this one is by far one of the most beautiful and most fun to read and enjoy. The collections of Lucas and Spielberg are an interesting angle and I liked figuring out why they would have bought these particular paintings.The photos and describtions of Rockwell's artistic process and preparation for the painting was fascinating. I did not expect to get that wonderful information. I thought this was going to be just a collection of the paintings and this book was more than just page after page of images. It was a real art and almost biographical book about Rockwell.
