Edward Hopper
Author
Language
English
Description
""In a career of sixty years marked by unwavering integrity and steady growth, Edward Hopper, created a series of unforgettable images of modern America. His art was based on the ordinary aspects of the contemporary United States, in city, town and country, seen with uncompromising truthfulness. No artist has painted a more revealing portrait of twentieth-century America. But he was not merely an objective realist. His art was charged with strong...
Author
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper?s pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? What were his most important influences while he was working on his great paintings of America? In this wonderful, simply structured, A-to-Z book, Ulf Küster pursues these themes, which say a great deal about the painter and his interests, and yet he never loses sight of the...
Author
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper's inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materials This engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of the revered American artist's life reveals how Hopper's experience of New York's spaces, sensations, and architecture shaped...
Author
Publisher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. This revealing volume unfolds the layered meanings of a key motif in Edward Hopper's work, exploring the hotel-motel subject as an agent of cultural transformation and emblem of its time."
An examination of the hotel and motel imagery-and the culture it represents--in Edward Hopper's iconic paintings and watercolors....
