{"id":52271,"date":"2021-07-22T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/produit\/edward-hopper-and-the-american-hotel\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:21:18","slug":"edward-hopper-and-the-american-hotel","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/en\/produit\/edward-hopper-and-the-american-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Hopper and the American Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Icon Icon Opinion\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Edward Hopper was a great traveller \u2014 someone who was used to beautiful hotels and touristic residences&#8230; This beautiful monograph deals with the American hotels that inspired Edward Hopper\u2019s paintings. A dive into these places as seen by a great painter. Maybe the occasion for readers to make their next bookings!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Leo G. Mazow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publishing House:<\/strong> Yale University Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> October 2019<\/p>\n<p>Using recreated itineraries, travel along with Edward Hopper on his various road trips and encounter hotels, staff, and guests as seen through the artist&#8217;s eyes. The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882\u20131967) is one of America\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 chapter then situates Hopper&#8217;s contribution to the fascinating role that the hotel has played in the broader development of American art in the 20th century. 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