Edward Hopper : an intimate biography / Gail Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Gail, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967.

Hopper, Edward.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 777 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

Updated and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: Truth and Pain xi

The Roots of Conflict: 1882-1899 3

Defining the Talent: 1899-1906 27

Seductive Paris: 1906-1907 49

The Ambivalent American: 1907-1910 72

In Search of a Style: 1911-1915 84

The Detour through Etching: 1915-1918 102

The Deeper Hunger: 1918-1923 123

The Leading Lady 146

First Success: 1923-1924 167

Getting Established: 1925-1927 188

On the Road to America: 1928-1929 212

Recognition: 1930-1933 227

First Retrospective and the Truro House: 1933-1935 251

An Intellectual Self-Portrait 272

Consequences of Success: 1936-1938 283

The Struggle to Paint: 1939 307

The War Begins: 1940 320

Failed Odyssey: 1941 333

Nighthawks: 1942 348

Mexico: 1943 358

War on the Home Front: 1944 367

The Aesthetic Divide: 1945 375

Anxiety: 1946-1947 385

Illness and Loss: 1948 400

Melancholy Reflection: 1949 408

A Retrospective Year: 1950 421

Mexico Again: 1951 436

Planning Reality: 1952 445

Reality: 1953 455

Taking Stock: 1954 474

Personal Vision: 1955 482

Time Cover Story: 1956 494

Toward Reconciliation: 1957-1958 508

Excursion into Philosophy: 1959 520

Protest: 1960 529

Prints Again: 1961-1962 543

Last Rehearsal: 1963-1964 554

Final Curtain: 1965-1967 569

Expanded Edition

Hopper's Legacy 683

Erased but not Forever: The Recovery of Jo Nivison Hopper 717

Hopper's Legacy for Visual Artists 729

Hopper's Legacy for Cinema 749.

Notes:

Original ed. published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0847829308 :

9780847829309 :

OCLC:

123907613