Une monographie qui rend compte de l'importance culturelle et artistique de l'artiste E. Hopper à travers une chronologie détaillée de sa vie et de son oeuvre. Une biographie et une centaine d'illustrations légendées complètent l'ensemble. ©Electre 2025
Lonely arts
A distinct eye for alienation
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover. Today, half a century after his death, Hopper is considered a giant of modern expression, with an uncanny, unforgettable, and utterly distinct sense for mood and place.
Much of Hopper's work excavates modern city experience. In canvas after canvas, he depicts diners, cafes, shopfronts, streetlights, gas stations, train stations, and hotel rooms. The scenes are marked by vivid color juxtapositions and stark, theatrical lighting, as well as by harshly contoured figures, who appear at once part of, and alien to, their surroundings. The ambiance throughout his repertoire is of an eerie disquiet, alienation, loneliness, and psychological tension, wheras his rural or coastal scenes offer a counterpoint of tranquillity or optimism.
This book presents key works from Hopper's oeuvre to introduce a key player not only in American art history but also in the American psyche.
« If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. »
- Edward Hopper
Paru le : 27/04/2017
Thématique : Histoire de la peinture Monographies de peintres
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Rolf Günter Renner
Éditeur(s) :
Taschen
Collection(s) : Series 2.0 Basic art
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-3-8365-0033-3
EAN13 : 9783836500333
Reliure : Relié sous jaquette
Pages : 95
Hauteur: 27.0 cm / Largeur 22.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 401 g
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