Download or read book Hopper s Places Second Edition written by Gail Levin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author pairs her own photographs of the sites with the paintings of Edward Hopper.

Download or read book Grace Hopper written by Kathleen Broome Williams and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the eccentric and outspoken Hopper helped propel the Navy into the computer age. She also was a superb publicist for the Navy, appearing frequently on radio and television and quoted regularly in newspapers and magazines. Yet in spite of all the attention she received, until now ""Amazing Grace,"" as she was called, has never been the subject of a full biography. Kathleen Broome Williams looks at Hopper's entire naval career, from the time she joined the WAVES and was sent in 1943 to work on the Mark I computer at Harvard, where she became one of the country's first computer programmers. Thanks to this early Navy introduction to computing, the author explains, Hopper had a distinguished civilian career in commercial computing after the war, gaining fame for her part in the creation of COBOL. The admiral's Navy days were far from over, however, and Williams tells how Hopper--already past retirement age--was recalled to active duty at the Pentagon in 1967 to standardize computer-programming languages for Navy computers. Her temporary appointment lasted for nineteen years while she standardized COBOL for the entire department of defense. Based on extensive interviews with colleagues and family and on archival material never before examined, this biography not only illuminates Hopper's pioneering accomplishments in a field that came to be dominated by men, but provides a fascinating overview of computing from its beginnings in World War II to the late 1980s.

Download or read book Hopper written by Rolf Günter Renner and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.

Download or read book The Hopper Collection written by Mathew Philip Smart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The First Lady of Hollywood written by Samantha Barbas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra—as well as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in the service of Hearst's political and personal agendas. As she traces Parsons's life and career, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's experiences in the broader trajectory of Hollywood history, charting the rise of the star system and the complex interactions of publicity, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, The First Lady of Hollywood is both an engrossing chronicle of one of the most powerful women in American journalism and film and a penetrating analysis of celebrity culture and Hollywood power politics.

Download or read book Hopper Drawings written by Edward Hopper and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Hopper holds an important place in twentieth-century American art. In his scenes of urban and rural life--canvases that reveal his rare, highly focused technical accomplishment and his deep psychological penetration--he created indelible images that often convey the loneliness of persons within their environment. Highly individual, instantly recognizable, his works are among the most esteemed in collections of American art. The Whitney Museum of American Art is the biggest repository of works by Edward Hopper. In its collection are a large number of Hopper drawings, powerful works that teach us not only about Hopper's technique and vision but also about the art of drawing itself. This book presents 44 major Hopper drawings, executed in crayon, charcoal, pencil, and other primarily monochromatic media, most of them reproduced directly from originals in the museum's collection. Some of these compelling works are studies for paintings. Many reveal familiar Hopper territory: Manhattan streets, a lighthouse on the Atlantic seacoast, the rural Northeast, and more. This inexpensive edition offers a wonderful opportunity for artists and art lovers to study the unique range and evocative power of Hopper's draftsmanship. Those mastering and refining their drawing skills will discover in these pages a rich source of inspiration and instruction. Dover (1989) original publication.

Download or read book Edward Hopper written by Gail Levin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Wall Street Journal—One of Five Best Artist Biographies Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings. What kind of man had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art? No one is better qualified to answer these questions than art historian Gail Levin, author and curator of the major studies and exhibitions of Hopper's work. In this intimate biography she reveals the true nature and personality of the man himself—and of the woman who shared his life, the artist Josephine Nivison.

Download or read book Edward Hopper written by Edward Hopper and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Ebsworth Collection written by Bruce Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the companion volume to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Seattle Art Museum, showcases the extraordinary collection of modern American masterworks assembled by Barney A. Ebsworth, a St. Louis businessman.The collection includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud.With more than 135 illustrations and an illuminating essay by distinguished art historian Bruce Robertson, this book will be a revelation to anyone who loves 20th-century American art.

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Download or read book Edward Hopper s Great Find written by Joan Elizabeth Goodman and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward doesn't like his friends' borrowing and not returning, but he misses their company when he cuts them off. Finally he hits upon the perfect solution.

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Download or read book Edward Hopper Selections from the Permanent Collection written by Edward Hopper and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hopper Collection written by Mat Smart and published by Broadway Play Publishing In. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marjorie and Daniel have serious marital problems. He's a wealthy art collector who's stubbornly besotted with her. She's a pill-popping eccentric who wants him dead. Their damaged lives revolve around her obsession with artist Edward Hopper and the brief encounter she had with him as a teenager. The arrival of a young couple hoping to view Marjorie's Hopper painting forces her to choose between living in the past and dropping the fantasy in favour of something real.The play is in one act and takes about 80 minutes.

Download or read book Edward Hopper 1882 1967 written by Ivo Kranzfelder and published by Benedikt Taschen Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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