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Edward Hopper  
Author: Justin Spring
ISBN: 0810958058
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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"Eerie silence, desolate houses, and blank-eyed individuals with frozen faces, stunned and fixed in time. Cold sunlight from some mysterious, otherworldly source. Unmoving bodies drained of passion and lonely people staring nowhere," writes author Justin Spring on the first page of this pocket-sized guide to one of America's favorite realist painters. "Welcome to Hopper's world."

Hopper's landscapes and interiors have affected everyone from noir film directors to the abstract expressionists. His paintings conveying the loneliness of contemporary life were painfully apt in the 1930s during the Great Depression--and they are still meaningful today. This book, one of the Essentials series of art books that offer the reader a quick and easy grounding in the work of a single artist, is also a surprisingly deep work thanks to the author. Spring can take a marriage like Edward and Jo Hopper's, which other writers have viewed as monumentally dysfunctional, and find what was good and enduring in it. He has a perfect grasp of Hopper's beauty as well as his strangeness, his voyeurism and his insistence on privacy, his asceticism, his love of culture, and his wanderlust. Spring also gives readers telling glimpses of scores of famous paintings, such as Nighthawks and A Woman in the Sun. Quoting Jo's note about the latter: "Cigarette and sad face of woman unlit." This is an excellent introduction to the art and the artist. --Peggy Moorman




Edward Hopper

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The great American realist Edward Hopper filled his canvases with sinister houses and blank-eyed people, with otherworldly lighting and naked women in motel rooms and theater dancers and movie usherettes and people waiting in lobbies. Hopper's people inhabit an eerie, silent world that hypnotizes viewers.

SYNOPSIS

The great American realist Edward Hopper filled his canvases with sinister houses and blank-eyed humans, with otherworldly lighting and naked women in motel rooms and theater dancers and movie usherettes and people waiting in lobbies. Hopper's subjects inhabit an eerie, silent world. This insightful volume, part of a new series, explores why the artist's work leaves the viewer feeling isolated and lonely, why he appeals to the voyeur in each of us, why he is so quintessentially American, and much more.

     



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