Norman Rockwell: The Underside of InnocenceNorman Rockwell’s scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do agree on one thing: his art embodies a distinctively American style of innocence.
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... Adam's apple as signifier of masculinity, 65; androgynous boys in Rockwell's work, 62–64; humiliation of men by women in Rockwell's work, 69; ideal of middle- class American masculinity, 77; illustration perceived as feminized, 67 ...
... Adam's apple of, 61, 64–65, 68; “aw, shucks-ism” of, 48; as crucifer, 96; darker zones in life of, 7; divorce from first wife, 70–71; “feminine” self-image of, 61–68, 78; gangs terrorizing in youth, 108–9; lower middle-class background ...