Hopper

As Adam Gopnik has said about this book Mark Strand looks more deeply into<strong>Hopper</strong>s pictures than anyone has before. In the page or two that acco... » 

As Adam Gopnik has said about this book Mark Strand looks more deeply intoHoppers pictures than anyone has before. In the page or two that accompanieseach of the 32 paintings including Nighthawks Gas 1940 People inthe Sun Automat Strand leads us into an astonishingly complex andaesthetically satisfying way of seeing that particular work and the whole ofHoppers oeuvre. Approaching a painting visually or formally he subtly drawsus to a place where what the painting has to say us is free of the usualsociological or psychological terms in which Hopper is discussed. In Strandsown words he shows that Hoppers paintings locate the viewer in a virtualspace where the influence and availability of feeling predominate.Hopper is a gift to anyone who is interested in the painter or in fact inany painter it expands the way we look at a work of art. «