Reviews
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Norman Rockwell: A Life
“An excellent and thorough new biography”
- Michael Kimmelman,
“Judicious, eminently readable, and astute, persuasive. . . This book deserves a wide readership”
“Impeccably researched and engagingly written.”
“Claridge has done an extraordinary job; she is an exhaustive researcher and a gifted art historian.”
“Fascinating”
“A critical biography of exceptional quality. . . .carefully researched, well written, and a pleasure to read.”
“A fine book. . .clear and lively.”
- Chicago Sun-Times“ A brilliant biography.”
- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence
“Claridge brings tact and insight to the job of unpicking the embroidery with which this aristocratic Russian émigré adorned the facts of her life. . . .Lempicka wasn’t thoughtful, but Claridge is, and she usefully explores the nature of modernism and women painters’ place in it.”
“Lucid and interesting account of Lempicka’s life. ”
“Even a reader with doubts (about Lempicka’s art) will be charmed by the eccentricities described in this feminist flavored, engrossing account.”
- Publishers Weekly“The definitive round-up of de Lempicka’s ramshackle but riveting life.”
- Sunday Times (London)“A thorough and intricately wrought critical biography. . . .Claridge delivers a nuanced and detailed account. . . .an astute biography.”
- Kirkus Reviews
Out of Bounds
“Out of Bounds disrupts and reforms our thinking about women, men, and literature. I admire its wonderful cogency, flair, and intelligence.”
- Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick“This impressive and varied collection passes far beyond the simple critique of ‘patriarchal’ symptoms that we see so often in literary criticism of male writers. . . .their originality resides in the collective refusal to simply condemn or lionize the gender politics of particular writers. . . .the critics themselves struggle in earnest to revise the terms of the debate in gender criticism.”
- Paul Smith, Carnegie-Mellon University
