by Wieland Schmied, Edward Hopper · Prestel Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783791320083
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«Edward Hopper: Portraits of America» is Wieland Schmied's visual essay on Edward Hopper, published by Prestel in paperback (128 pages).
The book brings together paintings by Edward Hopper that depict scenes of the United States and examines them as portraits of modern life: cities and solitary figures. Wieland Schmied places them in their historical context and studies their significance in American art. The cover reproduces one of these images, with a woman at the door of a white house.
This work belongs to Prestel's Pegasus Library series; it was published in 1999 and the text is in English.
A book for fans of American art, painting students and followers of Edward Hopper.
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Wieland Schmied was an Austrian art historian and critic, curator, literary scholar and writer. He was professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich since 1986 and its rector from 1988 until 1993. He was president of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste from 1995 to 2004.
