He ended the Saturday Evening Post because he refused to ignore the civil rights era and was stonchly on the side of desegrigation and equal rights, and the post refused to ‘‘be too political’’ and stop hiring him for covers, and no one bought them without his covers.
Very cool, and good to know considering the points another poster made about his art being a driving force behind the nostalgia for a Better (read: whiter) past that has ruined so many American minds over the years.
It can easily be both. If you look at American History X there’s a movie that is trying to look racism and neo nazi groups straight in the face and tell them they’re wrong and delusional. Yet racists and Neo nazis love the movie and use it for massaging to convince others or bolster their own groups. Rockwell was a product of his time, which ment populist socialism under FDR, seperate but equal racism, and the necessity to sell his art to corporations. He was pro civil rights, and never backed down, did a lot of pro civil rights pieces, but people can take his work as whites only.
He ended the Saturday Evening Post because he refused to ignore the civil rights era and was stonchly on the side of desegrigation and equal rights, and the post refused to ‘‘be too political’’ and stop hiring him for covers, and no one bought them without his covers.
Says quite a bit that they’d rather be broke than “woke”.
Very cool, and good to know considering the points another poster made about his art being a driving force behind the nostalgia for a Better (read: whiter) past that has ruined so many American minds over the years.
It can easily be both. If you look at American History X there’s a movie that is trying to look racism and neo nazi groups straight in the face and tell them they’re wrong and delusional. Yet racists and Neo nazis love the movie and use it for massaging to convince others or bolster their own groups. Rockwell was a product of his time, which ment populist socialism under FDR, seperate but equal racism, and the necessity to sell his art to corporations. He was pro civil rights, and never backed down, did a lot of pro civil rights pieces, but people can take his work as whites only.
American racism is alive and kicking unfortunately