Edward Hopper: The Eternal Instant Cassarà , Bruno

Title: Edward Hopper: The Eternal InstantAuthor: Toni, SabrinaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformBinding: PaperbackPages: 28Dimensions: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07dProduct Weight: 0.26 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9781727420173In the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal in America, the master realist painter Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) looked at everyday life in America with disenchantment and melancholy, yet searching for the existence of a meaning in it. This artist is open to the possibility of the infinite, and he looks for its signs, not in a transcendent dimension, but in the reality that surrounds him. It is a reality that doesn't consist so much of skyscrapers and Broadway lights but rather of the limited horizon of small town America. Realism, or being faithful to the real, for Hopper does not simply mean imitating what is in front of him. Rather, realism is evident, above all, in his fidelity to what his dialectic, and at times dramatic relations