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Edward Hopper and the American hotel

Title

Edward Hopper and the American hotel / Leo G. Mazow with Sarah G. Powers.

Author

Mazow, Leo G.

Publication

Richmond, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2019]
New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
Richmond, Virginia : Printed by Worth Higgins
©2019

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Description

xi, 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs, facsimiles; 28 cm +

Summary

"The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. This revealing volume unfolds the layered meanings of a key motif in Edward Hopper's work, exploring the hotel-motel subject as an agent of cultural transformation and emblem of its time."
An examination of the hotel and motel imagery--and the culture it represents--in Edward Hopper's iconic paintings and watercolors. The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stations forming a visual vocabulary of transportation infrastructure. In ten essays, this fascinating volume explores Hopper's lifelong investigation of such spaces, shedding light on both his professional practice and far-reaching changes in transportation and communications, which affected not only work and leisure but also dynamics of race, class, and gender. Hopper's covers for the trade journal Hotel Management, in addition to other well-known works, invite reflection on the complicated roles of the nascent New Woman; the erasure of hotel work and workers; contemporary associations of the color white with cleanliness and purity; the watercolors Hopper made from hotel windows and rooftops in Mexico; and the broader context of transportation history. A final section traces journeys that Hopper and his wife, the artist Josephine "Jo" Nivison Hopper, took by car in the 1940s and 1950s; selected correspondence and quotations from Jo's diaries join reproductions of postcards and ephemera illuminating their--and fellow Americans'--shifting travel habits.

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Genre/Form

Illustrated works.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published to accompany an exhibition held at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 26, 2019-February 23, 2020, and at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, June 4-September 13, 2020.
Two accompanying maps: Edward and Josephine Hopper's Road Trips, 1941 and 1952-53.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

Introducing Hopper's Hotels / Leo G. Mazow -- Edward Hopper, 'Hotel Managment', and the Work of Art / Leo G. Mazow -- Accomodating Home: Marjorie Hillis, Edward Hopper, and the Meaning of "Home" in Modern America / Erika Doss -- Room, Lobby, and Window: Hopper and the Invisibility of Hotel Labor / David Brody -- Edward Hopper and the Legibility of Whiteness / Carmenita Higginbotham -- The Dialectic of the Lobby / Leo G. Mazow -- Driven Inside: Cars, Mobility, and Hopper's Traveling Chambers / Jason Weems -- The Tower Effect: Edward Hopper in Mexico / Sarah G. Power -- Later Hopper: 'Western Motel', 'People in the Sun', and the El Paso Interlude / Leo G. Mazow -- The Hotel in American Art / Kirsten M. Jensen -- The Road Trips: Life on the Road with Edward and Josephine Hopper, 1941-1953 / Sarah G. Powers.

Call Number

JQF 20-311

ISBN

9780300246889
0300246889

LCCN

2019947853

OCLC

1128019053

Author

Mazow, Leo G., author.

Title

Edward Hopper and the American hotel / Leo G. Mazow with Sarah G. Powers.

Publisher

Richmond, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2019]

Distributor

New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press

Manufacturer

Richmond, Virginia : Printed by Worth Higgins

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.

Event

"Edward Hopper and the American Hotel" : October 26, 2019-February 23, 2020, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

"Edward Hopper and the American Hotel" : June 4-September 13, 2020, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Language

Text in English.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Place of Publication

United States Virginia Richmond.

Added Author

Powers, Sarah G., author.

Doss, Erika, 1956- author.

Brody, David Eric, author.

Higginbotham, Carmenita, 1971- author.

Weems, Jason, author.

Jensen, Kirsten M., 1969- author.

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967, artist, painter.

Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967. Works. Selections.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 20-311

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