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Brooklyn Rail, 2015
“Tracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper,” The Brooklyn... more “Tracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2015. Story of my innovative detective work to uncover Jo Hopper's story and inscribe her into art history even after the Whitney Museum discarded almost all of her paintings.
The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 1981
In the first edition of "Hopper's Places", Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Ho... more In the first edition of "Hopper's Places", Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester and Cape Cod, to demonstrate how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional changes from what he observed. This edition includes documentary photographs and Hopper's paintings of sites in Paris, Charleston, Mexico and the western US, to give a broader view of the range of his work and how he transformed his subjects while remaining faithful to their essential features.
In spite of so much attention, a significant component of Hartley's artistic career remains a... more In spite of so much attention, a significant component of Hartley's artistic career remains almost completely unappreciated.2 He wrote an essay, 'The Appeal of Photography" (published in 1921 in his first book, Adventures in the Arts), which has received too little attention. In it Hartley called photography "an undeniable esthetic problem upon our modern artistic horizon"; and he went on to write: "I have always said for myself that the kodak offers me the best substitute for the picture of life, that I have found. I find the snapshot, almost without exception, holding my interest for what it contains of simple registration of and adherence to facts for themselves."3 Better known is Hartley's friendship with the pioneer photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who collected Hartley's paintings and showed them in his galleries.4 New evidence shows that Hartley himself was profoundly involved with photography in his creative process. Important documenta...
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... Edward Hopper as illustrator. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Levin, Gail (b. 1948, d. ... more ... Edward Hopper as illustrator. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Levin, Gail (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Norton (New York). ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xi,. SUBJECT(S): Hopper, Edward. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. LC NUMBER: NC975.5.H66 L48 1979. HTTP: ...
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Josephine Hopper’s two hand-drawn pictorial maps of South Truro and Cape Cod link art and cartogr... more Josephine Hopper’s two hand-drawn pictorial maps of South Truro and Cape Cod link art and cartography. She made them to introduce the places she shared with her husband, Edward Hopper, to collectors who bought his painting of a site she mapped. Her mid1930s maps have little regard for accurate scale, showing artistic rather than technical style. They feature landmarks, both natural and constructed, from either Edward’s or Jo’s paintings, or both. The style of her maps resembles both contemporaneous American and turn-of-the-century pictorial maps of Paris. She projects her inner vision of the outer world that she and Edward both depicted. Gail Levin * City University of New York * Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of art history, American studies, and women’s studies at City University of New York, is the author of Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, and Hopper’s Places. Her subsequent work, often focused on women artists, includes biographies...
This essay was occasioned by the invitation to lecture in Nagoya about a show of contemporary lan... more This essay was occasioned by the invitation to lecture in Nagoya about a show of contemporary landscape painting from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Following upon two recent environmental disasters, the author felt compelled to view this work in terms of American artists' role in promoting environmental awareness, going back in time to the great nineteenth-century tradition of American landscape painting and its legacy. Activism by visual artists in promoting environmental awareness continued during the late 1960s when a political cartoonist, Ron Cobb, designed the symbol used for the ecology flag in time for the founding of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The author examines contemporary artists' landscapes and analyzes whether and how they encourage viewers to consider the perils threatening nature today. After tracing the gradually dawning awareness that man's activities harm nature, the differences between the conservationists and the environmenta...
Thank you for downloading silent places a tribute to edward hopper. Maybe you have knowledge that... more Thank you for downloading silent places a tribute to edward hopper. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen books like this silent places a tribute to edward hopper, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious virus inside their computer. silent places a tribute to edward hopper is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our books collection saves in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the silent places a tribute to edward hopper is universally compatible with any devices to read.
Social Research: An International Quarterly
This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 357 watercolor paintings . They were first... more This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 357 watercolor paintings . They were first published in the four-volume catalogue raisonne of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price that will make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in art. Hopper was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although his technique with each medium varied considerably. While oils were done in the studio, often from detailed sketches with notations on colors, the watercolors were painted on location and seem far more spontaneous. In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many of his paintings have achieved iconographic status as statements about this country. His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak of our sense of loneliness and alienation, while his fascination with the light on Cape Cod and the buildings in Gloucester result in the evocation of feelings that can only be described as uniquely American.
Brooklyn Rail, 2015
“Tracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper,” The Brooklyn... more “Tracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2015. Story of my innovative detective work to uncover Jo Hopper's story and inscribe her into art history even after the Whitney Museum discarded almost all of her paintings.
The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 1981
In the first edition of "Hopper's Places", Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Ho... more In the first edition of "Hopper's Places", Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester and Cape Cod, to demonstrate how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional changes from what he observed. This edition includes documentary photographs and Hopper's paintings of sites in Paris, Charleston, Mexico and the western US, to give a broader view of the range of his work and how he transformed his subjects while remaining faithful to their essential features.
In spite of so much attention, a significant component of Hartley's artistic career remains a... more In spite of so much attention, a significant component of Hartley's artistic career remains almost completely unappreciated.2 He wrote an essay, 'The Appeal of Photography" (published in 1921 in his first book, Adventures in the Arts), which has received too little attention. In it Hartley called photography "an undeniable esthetic problem upon our modern artistic horizon"; and he went on to write: "I have always said for myself that the kodak offers me the best substitute for the picture of life, that I have found. I find the snapshot, almost without exception, holding my interest for what it contains of simple registration of and adherence to facts for themselves."3 Better known is Hartley's friendship with the pioneer photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who collected Hartley's paintings and showed them in his galleries.4 New evidence shows that Hartley himself was profoundly involved with photography in his creative process. Important documenta...
An academic directory and search engine.
... Edward Hopper as illustrator. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Levin, Gail (b. 1948, d. ... more ... Edward Hopper as illustrator. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Levin, Gail (b. 1948, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Norton (New York). ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xi,. SUBJECT(S): Hopper, Edward. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. LC NUMBER: NC975.5.H66 L48 1979. HTTP: ...
An academic directory and search engine.
Josephine Hopper’s two hand-drawn pictorial maps of South Truro and Cape Cod link art and cartogr... more Josephine Hopper’s two hand-drawn pictorial maps of South Truro and Cape Cod link art and cartography. She made them to introduce the places she shared with her husband, Edward Hopper, to collectors who bought his painting of a site she mapped. Her mid1930s maps have little regard for accurate scale, showing artistic rather than technical style. They feature landmarks, both natural and constructed, from either Edward’s or Jo’s paintings, or both. The style of her maps resembles both contemporaneous American and turn-of-the-century pictorial maps of Paris. She projects her inner vision of the outer world that she and Edward both depicted. Gail Levin * City University of New York * Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of art history, American studies, and women’s studies at City University of New York, is the author of Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, and Hopper’s Places. Her subsequent work, often focused on women artists, includes biographies...
This essay was occasioned by the invitation to lecture in Nagoya about a show of contemporary lan... more This essay was occasioned by the invitation to lecture in Nagoya about a show of contemporary landscape painting from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Following upon two recent environmental disasters, the author felt compelled to view this work in terms of American artists' role in promoting environmental awareness, going back in time to the great nineteenth-century tradition of American landscape painting and its legacy. Activism by visual artists in promoting environmental awareness continued during the late 1960s when a political cartoonist, Ron Cobb, designed the symbol used for the ecology flag in time for the founding of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The author examines contemporary artists' landscapes and analyzes whether and how they encourage viewers to consider the perils threatening nature today. After tracing the gradually dawning awareness that man's activities harm nature, the differences between the conservationists and the environmenta...
Thank you for downloading silent places a tribute to edward hopper. Maybe you have knowledge that... more Thank you for downloading silent places a tribute to edward hopper. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen books like this silent places a tribute to edward hopper, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious virus inside their computer. silent places a tribute to edward hopper is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our books collection saves in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the silent places a tribute to edward hopper is universally compatible with any devices to read.
Social Research: An International Quarterly
This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 357 watercolor paintings . They were first... more This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 357 watercolor paintings . They were first published in the four-volume catalogue raisonne of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price that will make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in art. Hopper was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although his technique with each medium varied considerably. While oils were done in the studio, often from detailed sketches with notations on colors, the watercolors were painted on location and seem far more spontaneous. In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many of his paintings have achieved iconographic status as statements about this country. His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak of our sense of loneliness and alienation, while his fascination with the light on Cape Cod and the buildings in Gloucester result in the evocation of feelings that can only be described as uniquely American.