Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art. Since its completion in 1957, Edward Hoppers Western Motel has been regarded as a symbol of US society between mobility and anonymity, belief in progress and melancholy of loneliness - just as Hoppers entire oeuvre is generally understood and disseminated as an iconography of modern everyday life. His subjects are those things and places in the city or in the country that you hardly take notice of despite their typical character stores, offices, houses, cafe and movie theater interiors, lighthouses, track systems, railway compartments, gas stations, hotel rooms. By reducing these to their essential outward
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- ISBN
9783940748515
- Published
- January 1st 2009 by Verlag Moderne Kunst
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 312
- County of origin
- GERMANY
- Dimensions
- 240 x 195