num_pages: 112
description: The great American realist Edward Hopper filled his canvases with sinister houses and blank-eyed humans, with otherworldly lighting and naked women in motel rooms, theater dancers, movie usherettes and people waiting in lobbies. Hopper's people inhabit an eerie, silent world that hypnotizes viewers.Do you know why:• Hopper leaves us feeling lonely and alienated?• Hopper appeals to the voyeur in us?• Hopper is so "American"?• Hopper was smitten with movies, sex, and automobiles?• Hopper uses the same woman in many of his paintings?
language: English
title: The Essential Edward Hopper
titlecomplete: The Essential Edward Hopper
genres: Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 32
series: The Essential
publisher: Harry N. Abrams