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| Title | : | Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394546644 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 678 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
"A very telling biography" according to A Customer. Gail Levin, the curator of Hopper's works at the Whitney Museum in New York City, had the exclusive privilege of Josephine (Mrs.) Hopper's journals that extend from the 1920s to the 1960s. Jo was an artist herself and her frustrations are paralled with Edward's successes. Maybe too much of the book is about poor Mrs. Hopper and her unsuportive Husband, but Levin crafts the history so well that I didn't hold it against her. Each of the major oil paintings are covered from a making-of perspective which I found illuminating. . Good Hopper Job Very profound and readable. My favorite painting is included. The book reads like a Hopper painting Ward A. Campbell Do not be intimidated by this book's length. I am not an art buff, but have become interested in Hopper and plan to attend the upcoming exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in DC this Fall.I approached this book with trepidation, but found myself drawn into it. I read it compulsively to the finish. There is tremendous detail presented in a simple austere style. It tries to make Hopper's life speak for itself. Thus, the book is a work of art about it's subject--a Hopper.My only caveat is that you must also
Tour.. 10,000 first printing. A profile of American artist Edward Hopper is based on diaries by his wife Jo, revealing Hopper's dour and repressed personality, the sources of his creations, and his tempestuous forty-three-year marriage
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Nevertheless, as his model, intellectual peer and fellow artist, she stimulated his creativity, and, according to Levin, they became partners and conspirators in a domestic drama of deep attraction and violent opposition that fed his disquieting vision of modern life. Its focus is the laconic, introverted painter's stormy 43-year marriage to outspoken, gregarious Josephine ("Jo") Nivison, herself an artist. Through diary entries, we learn that Hopper ridiculed, degraded and occasionally beat or bruised his wife, that he refused to let her drive their car, that he thwarted her career even as she devotedly helped him find subjects to paint. Illustrated throughout with photographs as well as scores of reproductions of both Hoppers' paintings and drawings. Levin, art professor at Baruch College and the City University of New York graduate school, draws extensively on Jo Hopper's i
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