Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Edward Hopper : Fresh Look at Landscape - Ulf Küster

Edward Hopper

Fresh Look at Landscape

By: Ulf Küster (Editor), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Erika Doss, David Lubin, Katharina Rüppell

Hardcover | 1 June 2020

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $130.00

$94.75

27%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $23.69 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days


Edward Hopper’s world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life.

With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. He began his career as an illustrator and became famous around the globe for his oil paintings. They testify to his great interest in the effects of color and his mastery in depicting light and shadow.

The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its large exhibition in the spring of 2020 to Hopper’s iconic images of the vast American landscape. The catalogue gathers together all of the paintings, watercolors, and drawings from the 1910s to the 1960s on display in the exhibition, and supplements them with essays focused on the subject of depicting landscape.

About the Artist

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is the master of American Realism. His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American modernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers, and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this very day.
Industry Reviews
A fresh look at Hopper's iconic vision of the American landscape - its gas stations, diners and highways. Edward Hopper's world-famous, instantly recognizable paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life, unfolding in a world of lonely lighthouses, gas stations, movie theaters, bars and hotel rooms. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper's work continues to this day to color our memory and imaginary of the United States in the first half of the Twentieth Century.-- "Antiques and The Arts Weekly"
Hopper rejected the formulas and rules that governed landscape painting before his time. While the Hudson River School and its European predecessors saw land as a well-composed, static entity, Hopper's landscapes suggest that not everything has been neatly captured in view. "Landscape is an image of nature that doesn't change, but nature is changing," the exhibition's curator Ulf K?ster recently said, mentioning the Australian bushfires and the threat of climate change. "Hopper makes changing nature visible. He shows landscape as part of something bigger, something that is perhaps beyond our control."--Lauren Ford "Art and Object"
The visual bard of American solitude--not loneliness, a maudlin projection--speaks to our isolated states these days with fortuitous poignance. [...] I haven't seen "Edward Hopper: A Fresh Look at Landscape," a large show at the lately reopened Beyeler Foundation... I take its fine catalogue, edited by the exhibition's curator, Ulf K?ster, as occasion enough for reflecting anew on the artist's stubborn force.--Peter Schjeldahl "New Yorker"
Casting a caustic eye on modernity and a watchful one upon nature, Hopper ranks among the most haunting of the last Romantics.--David Anfam "Art Newspaper"
Edward Hopper's world-famous, instantly recognizable paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life, unfolding in a world of lonely lighthouses, gas stations, movie theaters, bars and hotel rooms.--Editors "ARTFIXdaily"

More in Individual Artists, Art Monographs

Ai Weiwei on Censorship : Pocket Perspectives - Ai Weiwei

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Dog Only Knows : The Dog Portraits of Alison Friend - Alison Friend
The Art of the Lord of the Rings [60th Anniversary Edition] - J. R. R. Tolkien
Creature : Paintings, Drawings and Reflections - Shaun Tan

RRP $64.95

$33.75

48%
OFF
Cressida Campbell - National Gallery of Australia

RRP $89.99

$68.75

24%
OFF
Holbein : Renaissance Master - Elizabeth Goldring

RRP $82.95

$60.75

27%
OFF
After the Rain : 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial - Tony Albert
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey : Do You Believe in Love? - Natalie King
JoJo A-Go!Go! : JoJo A-Go!Go! - Hirohiko Araki

RRP $43.99

$34.75

21%
OFF
Tom Ford - Tom Ford

Hardcover

RRP $250.00

$173.75

30%
OFF
HR Giger. 45th Ed. : 40th Anniversary Edition - Andreas J. Hirsch

RRP $54.99

$40.75

26%
OFF
The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. : 45th Edition - Dan Nadel
Salvador Dali : The Persistence of Memory - Anne Umland

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism : Bibliotheca Universalis - Daniel Wildenstein
Nathalie Lete Sticker Book - Nathalie Lete

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Theatre Picasso - Natalia  Sidlina

RRP $54.99

$42.75

22%
OFF
The Bird Art of William T. Cooper - Wendy Cooper

RRP $64.99

$51.75

20%
OFF
Chris Levine : Light! (Special Edition) - HELEN CHISLETT