Hopper's Places, Second edition - Softcover

Levin, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520216768 ISBN 13: 9780520216761

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

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Review:

"This comparative view illustrates Hopper's compositional approach, his use of cropping, his exaggeration of the vertical or horizontal elements, and his simplifications, which Levin details. . . . The photographs themselves, taken in most cases several decades after the paintings were made, are equally illustrative of America's changing landscape."--"Library Journal

Synopsis:

In the first edition of "Hopper's Places", Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester and Cape Cod, to demonstrate how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional changes from what he observed. This edition includes documentary photographs and Hopper's paintings of sites in Paris, Charleston, Mexico and the western US, to give a broader view of the range of his work and how he transformed his subjects while remaining faithful to their essential features.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520216768
• ISBN 13: 9780520216761
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 182