Edward Hopper and the American Imagination FROM OUR EDITORS
This collection of short stories and poems pays homage to the inspiring ways Edward Hopper captured the essence of our culture in his paintings. Hopper's themes of alienation and loneliness expressed through images of empty cityscapes and countrysides, silent hills and dimly lit houses are recollected in these works by Paul Austen, Galway Kinnell, Gail Levin, Norman Mailer, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, William Kennedy, Grace Paley, Ann Lauterbach, Leonard Michaels, Walter Mosley, and James Salter. Includes color plates of 59 important Hopper paintings.
ANNOTATION
This remarkable collection includes reproductions of 59 of Edward Hopper's most important paintings in full color, as well as original stories and poems by such renowned writers and poets as Anne Beattie, Norman Mailer, William Kennedy, Grace Paley, Walter Mosley, and John Hollander. BOMC & QPBC Selections. 59 color illustrations . 272 pp.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This volume includes fifty-nine of Hopper's most important works in full color as well as original works by fiction writers and poets that pay homage to, or make reference to, the ways in which Hopper pictured our world. Hopper's themes of alienation and loneliness, empty cityscapes and countrysides, the stark light of Cape Cod, silent hills and houses - all have been indelibly imprinted on our collective sense of ourselves and our country. This work celebrates the impact Hopper's imagery continues to have on contemporary culture and is dedicated to a fuller understanding of Hopper's place in the American mind.
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