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Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms

Lynch, Sylvio, III
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
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.
Rebecca Mancuso, Ph.D (Advisor)
Laura Sanchez, Ph.D (Other)
Charles Coletta , Ph.D (Committee Member)
Andrew Hershberger, Ph.D (Committee Member)
119 p.
American Studies; Art Criticism; 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

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  • Lynch, III, S. (2020). Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lynch, III, Sylvio. Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms. 2020. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lynch, III, Sylvio. "Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577554501384163

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