Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover. Today, half a century after his death, Hopper is considered a giant of modern expression, with an uncanny, unforgettable, and ut...(展开全部)

马克·斯特兰德 Mark Strand (1934-2014)，美国诗人，散文家，译者。1990年当选美国年度桂冠诗人。以《一之暴风雪》获得1999年普利策诗歌奖，，另曾获得麦克阿瑟基金奖。主要作品包括诗集《一之暴风雪》,《更暗的》《黑暗的港口》，散文《词语的寒暄》,《霍珀》，《夜之书》等。

Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper’s masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter, whose enigmatic paintings—of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms—number among the most powerful of our time. In brief but wonderfully compelling comme...(展开全部)

马克·斯特兰德 Mark Strand (1934-2014)，美国诗人，散文家，译者。1990年当选美国年度桂冠诗人。以《一之暴风雪》获得1999年普利策诗歌奖，，另曾获得麦克阿瑟基金奖。主要作品包括诗集《一之暴风雪》,《更暗的》《黑暗的港口》，散文《词语的寒暄》,《霍珀》，《夜之书》等。

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover. Today, half a century after his death, Hopper is considered a giant of modern expression, with an uncanny, unforgettable, and ut...(展开全部)

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies c...(展开全部)

Edward Hopper is as quintessentially American as Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol. Like them, his imagery has reached far beyond the realm of art to impact on our culture in the broadest terms, so that we see early twentieth-century America through his work, as much as within it. The painter Charles Burchfield attributed Hopper’s success to his “bold individualism,” declaring tha...(展开全部)

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles