Hopper

Mark Strand

ISBN 10: 0880013435 / ISBN 13: 9780880013437

Published by Ecco Press January 1994, 1994

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**Inscribed by the author to the previous owner.** Light reader wear and rubbing to the edges, corners, covers, and pages. There's a sticker of a cat on the inside of the front cover. The book is in great condition! Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hopper
• Publisher: Ecco Press January 1994
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880013435
• ISBN 13: 9780880013437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good - Cash
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.