by Edward Hopper, Wieland Schmied · Prestel Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783791333007
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«Edward Hopper: Portraits of America» is Wieland Schmied's art criticism essay, published by Prestel Publishing in paperback (125 pages, in English).
The book brings together a selection of Edward Hopper's oils and watercolors and analyzes them as portraits of American life: empty towns, solitary figures in offices, and serene New England landscapes. It proposes that these compositions, the result of a life devoted to observing human nature, convey an enigmatic uncertainty that speaks to the American postwar experience.
For readers interested in modern art, American realist painting, and art criticism.
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.
