![]() ![]() While there is a lot of referencing, it doesn’t interfere with the flow of reading. The book is a cornucopia of information related to Hooper that is written in an academic form. ![]() Its clear Hooper plays an important roll in the timestamp of American painting, regardless of the categorical title used. The French painters didn’t talk about ‘French scene’ or the English painters about the ‘English Scene’ … the American quality is in a painter – he doesn’t have to strive for it.” I think the American Scene painters caricatured America. I never tried to do the American scene as Benton and Curry and the Midwestern painters did. ‘The thing that makes me so mad is the ‘American Scene’ business. He then goes on to give a brief overview of Edward Hooper’s artistic history with insightful quotes from Hooper: ‘Is he a true Regionalist? Is his art great on account of its local color, or despite it? Or is his work not regionalist at all, and those who seek its origins in the American Scene are mistaken?’ Straight away, Wieland Schmied starts with provocative and thought provoking questions: ![]() Prestel Books are renowned for their quality and detailed art books and this one doesn’t disappoint.Įdward Hooper is the notorious realist painter that painted Nighthwawk (1942) the famous scene depicting big city loneliness in a diner. ![]()
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