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Edward
Hopper
For all his realism,
Hopper was essentially a poet,'' writes Goodrich, and this sumptuous
album, a reissue of an out-of-print 1970 monograph, is an incomparable
guide to understanding that poetry. Hopper (1882-1967) gravitated
to painting lunch counters, nudes in hotel rooms, lighthouses, gas
stations, rooftops--underappreciated, nakedly honest figurations
of America's heartland. A prophet of loneliness, this laconic individualist
captured the anarchy of American cities, the quiet melancholy of
small towns and suburbs. Paradoxically, his pictures have a restorative,
bracing effect--perhaps, as is suggested here, because of Hopper's
emotional attachment to his native environment. The late Goodrich
was director of the Whitney Museum in New York and a friend of the
artist, whose own comments are interspersed with a refreshingly
readable text and more than 200 full-page plates.
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The
Paintings of Edward Hopper
The complete oils of
arguably America's best and probably America's most "American" artist.
This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 366 oil paintings.
They were first published in the four-volume catalogue raisonne
of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price that will
make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in art. Hopper
was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although his technique
with each medium varied considerably. While oils were done in the
studio, often from detailed sketches with notations on colors, the
watercolors were painted on location and seem far more spontaneous.
In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many of his paintings
have achieved iconographic status as statements about this country.
His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak of our sense of loneliness
and alienation, while his fascination with the light on Cape Cod
and the buildings in Gloucester result in the evocation of feelings
that can only be described as uniquely American. 350 color plates,
with notes and annotations by Gail Levin. Published in association
with the Whitney Museum of Art.
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The
Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The complete watercolors
of arguably America's best and probably America's most "American"
artist. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 357 watercolor
paintings. They were first published in the four-volume catalogue
raisonne of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price
that will make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in
art. Hopper was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although
his technique with each medium varied considerably. While oils were
done in the studio, often from detailed sketches with notations
on colors, the watercolors were painted on location and seem far
more spontaneous. In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many
of his paintings have achieved iconographic status as statements
about this country. His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak
of our sense of loneliness and alienation, while his fascination
with the light on Cape Cod and the buildings in Gloucester result
in the evocation of feelings that can only be described as uniquely
American. 350 color plates, with notes and annotations by Gail Levin.
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Edward
Hopper : The Art and the Artist
This sumptuous book
presents the full range of Edward Hopper's work and offers greater
access to Hopper, the man, than any other single volume. This book
goes beyond the standard evaluations of the man and his work to
reveal a complex man, introspective and intellectual yet romantic,
and to illuminate the many levels of meaning in the paintings of
his maturity.
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Hopper
Recent U.S. poet laureate
Mark Strand examines the work of frequently misunderstood American
painter Edward Hopper, whose enigmatic paintings--of gas stations,
storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms--number among the most
powerful of our time. Featured in a series of upcoming museum lectures.
Illustrations throughout.
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Edward
Hopper : Transformation of the Real (Basic Series : Art) by Rolf
Gunter Renner
EDWARD HOPPER'S world of lonelyless is like a mirror of AMERICA
's rural world and also an alienation of city life.There is a real
unity in the artist's vision and the way he has chosen to celebrate
the people he loved is both moving and haunting.Who can forget those
visions of a secretary sitting on the desk and waiting for the boss,
and those people in the sun just lying there ,and finally those
two women in the restaurant?HOPPER is an artist that really gets
to you in a most depressing way.As an introduction to his work,
this book is interesting
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Hopper's
Places
"A rare opportunity
to ponder how Hopper made the ordinary extraordinary. . . . To compare
photographs of unmemorable structures with the saturate, intensely
lighted paintings (most from private collections) is to see how
realism is much more than mere depiction. Gail Levin, the former
curator of the Edward Hopper collection at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, has done an invaluable service in this book."
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Hopper
Drawings : 44 Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney
Museum of American Art
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Edward
Hopper : Summer at the Seashore (Adventures in Art)
A great Realist painter, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) created some
of the most iconic images of the American landscape which capture
the rugged quality and enduring spirit of the country. The coastal
areas of New England, and Cape Cod in particular, where he made
his summer home, inspired some of Hopperšs most memorable and appealing
works. This book brings together a wonderful selection of paintings,
watercolors, and drawings of the seashore.
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Edward
Hopper : Forty Masterworks (Schirmer's Visual Library)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
is generally considered the major twentieth-century realist. Such
paintings as House by the Railroad, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks
seem to embody the loneliness of the individual in the cities and
open spaces of America. Hopper strongly influenced contemporary
American art, and there are countless photographs and films inspired
by his work. The forty paintings in this volume give a representative
overview of Hopper's art.
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Edward
Hopper : Portraits of America (Pegasus Library)
Edward Hopper created
some of the most popular icons of twentieth-century American art.
Tinged with a dim opaque light, his realistic style depicts empty
spaces, irritating landscapes, and situations in the modern metropolis,
where man is encircled by elements that seem about to overpower
him. His work was essentially a critique of modern life and made
Hopper one of the most respected figures in modern art.
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Edward
Hopper: The Watercolors
The first major work
on the exquisite watercolors of America's foremost and most popular
realist painter. Edward Hopper has been celebrated for over half
a century as America's most eloquent realist artist. His best known
oils, such as Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning, and House by a Railroad,
are powerful psychological statements that convey a sense of angst
and alienation. Yet there is another Hopper we know less well: the
freer, more spontaneous spirit that emerges in his watercolors.
In 1923 he spent a summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and began
painting houses, landscapes, and fishing boats. In them he captures
remnants of nineteenth-century America that for him symbolized the
fundamental character of the country's people and places, and prompted
him to reexamine his views about the relationship between the past
and the modern. Over the next two decades, Hopper painted hundreds
of watercolors, in Gloucester, the coast of Maine, New Mexico, and
Cape Cod. This beautiful book reproduces and examines over one hundred
of Hopper's greatest watercolors in the context of his life and
travels. It is an indispensable book for anyone interested in American
art.
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Edward
Hopper : An Intimate Biography
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Edward
Hopper (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) |
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