Norman Rockwell's View of America

Personally, I love the works of Norman Rockwell.  I think his views of America, especially the works produced on the covers of the Saturday Evening Post helped to lift the spirits of Americans in some of the gloomiest and darkest moments.  I am sorry that more museums and curators do not seem to appreciate what a master he was.  But I am driven to ponder why Americans seek to re-create Rockwell's view of the country and its people (what Bush called "homeland"- super yuck, projectile vomiting).  Rockwell staged poses of New England Americans in the last century.  I don't know if his images ever really existed outside of his mind (for most of them, I doubt it) but in any event they are not the America of today.  Why can't we have images of America and Americans as they exist, in reality, today?  I want to see images of the day.  I want to see the reality of the day, beautiful or ugly, whatever, it doesn't matter to me if it is the truth.  I want to see the abstractions too, that Americans of today create.  Honor the past, yes absolutely, eagerly anticipate the future, but by all means acknowledge today.