Edward Hopper, the Ashcan School, and Popular Illustration

Jeudi 22 mars 2012
18h
Terra Foundation for American Art Europe
29, rue des Pyramides
75001 Paris



Michael Lobel, associate professor of art history, Purchase College, State University of New York ; Terra visiting professor of American art, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

While Edward Hopper is known as the quintessential painter of American life, he spent many years as a commercial illustrator. In this respect, he followed in the footsteps of the artists of the Ashcan School, who influenced his approach to depicting the city and who were likewise trained as illustrators. This discussion will highlight the correspondences between Hopper and this earlier group of American artists.
Michael Lobel is associate professor of art history and director of the MA program in modern and contemporary art, criticism and theory at Purchase College, State University of New York, and the Terra Foundation visiting professor at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris (spring 2012). His publications include : Image Duplicator : Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002), James Rosenquist : Pop Art, Politics and History in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2009), and exhibition catalog essays and articles in Art Journal, Artforum, Parkett, and Art Bulletin. He curated Fugitive Artist : The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974–77 for the Neuberger Museum of Art in 2007. He recently completed a book manuscript on the early twentieth-century American artist John Sloan.


The talk will be held in English.
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