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Edward Hopper : light and dark /
"In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Done in cold...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, USA :
Parkstone International,
[2012?]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Done in cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper's paintings also symbolically reflect the Great Depression. Through a series of different reproductions (etchings, watercolours, and oil-on-canvas paintings), as well as thematic and artistic analysis, the author sheds new light on the enigmatic and tortured world of this outstanding figure"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page 196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780427577 1780427573 9781783100262 1783100265 |