Hopper (Writers on Art) - Hardcover

Strand, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880013435 ISBN 13: 9780880013437

Verlag: Ecco, 1994

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Edward Hopper's paintings are icons of American culture. His representations of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias and hotel rooms embody the solitude of travel and adult life in the America of the thirties, forties and fifties. Because of the familiarity of his subject matter, Hopper has been pigeon-holed both historically, as an American realist, and thematically, as an artist of alienation.
Mark Strand, recent poet laureate and writer of many books of award-winning poetry, approaches Hopper's work with a fresh eye, exploring the aesthetic principles behind the paintings. Strand, whose poems move through a terrain similar to that portrayed by Hopper, possesses a unique and powerful understanding of what makes the paintings so moving and memorable. He writes with his distinctive clarity and grace, examining twenty-three of Hopper's most important works. He cites aesthetic reasons for Hopper's continuing ability to deeply move people in an America that has grown considerably more complex both politically and socially since mid-century.

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Mark Strand (1934–2014) was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was the author of many books of poems, three volumes of translations, and one book of short stories. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he died in November 2014, after being nominated for a National Book Award for Collected Poems.

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• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0880013435
• ISBN 13: 9780880013437
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
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