Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu15775545013841632021-08-03T07:13:36Z Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms Lynch, Sylvio, III Art Criticism American Studies Art History History America American American art Norman Rockwell Rockwell Four freedoms World War II American propaganda American visual culture 20th century America Americana American kitsch The compendium of scholarly investigation in art history woefully lacks acknowledgement of perhaps the most widely known American artist of the 20th century. Norman Rockwell created works that caused non-critics to identify with understanding their sense of American identity. Rockwell also created works that caused critics to mention him by name a chief arbiter of middlebrow repression. Rockwell’s work would later be signposted as a callback to a mythical, simpler time in America. This research considers the aforementioned, exploring Rockwell’s Four Freedoms, often recalled, reinvented and discussed as symbols of American morality and aspiration. Through a focused investigation of these four works, this research defines elements of “hyper-American” expression as a subsidiary of mid-century American kitsch. Rockwell’s expressions of Americana define the rhetoric of self-realized identity that has been copied, popularized, examined, and re-examined in many areas of popular culture. 2020-04-14 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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