Telling Stories, based on the Rockwell collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell’s iconic depictions of American life and the movies. Rockwell, the quintessential American mythmaker of the 20th century, was a storyteller on a par with the great Hollywood directors of his time, and touched the lives of the two most successful directors of our day. Within Rockwell’s art, the fantasies and foibles of ordinary people are given life, central among them the themes of love of country, the sanctity of family, and the value of personal honor. Telling Stories, which accompanies an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is richly illustrated with Rockwell images, photographs, and film stills.
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Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Arts & Photography

Mecklenburg, Virginia

McCarthy, Todd

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

A beautifully illustrated survey of African American art of the twentieth century, including many never-before-seen works by the most important artists of the period. African American Art presents a powerful selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience of the twentieth century. Embracing many universal themes and also evoking specific aspects of the African American experience such as the African diaspora, jazz, and the power of religion, the artists worked in styles as varied as documentary realism, abstraction, and postmodern assemblage of found objects. Drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s rich collection of African American art, the works include paintings by Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Thornton Dial Sr., Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, and Lois Mailou Jones, and photographs by Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Roland Freeman, Marilyn Nance, and James Van Der Zee. More than half of the artworks in the exhibition are being shown for the first time. In Richard Powell’s text, his usual keen insights into meaning and metaphor enrich the reader’s understanding of the artworks in their historical setting and contemporary culture.

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Era, and Beyond

Powell, Richard J.

Slowik, Theresa

Skira/Rizzoli

Shows realistic American paintings, drawings, and sculpture and provides brief profiles of each artist

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection

Travel

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the Us State Department Exhibition, 1946-48

United States Department Of State

Ausfeld, Margaret Lynne

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Abrams

Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Bunch III, Lonnie G.

Batsford

Modern Masters: American Abstraction at Midcentury

This brand new volume presents, in stunning color, over seventy postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the center of the modern art scene in the two decades following World War II.

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