The New York painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967), icon of twentieth-century plastic, visited Saltillo and Monterrey during the forties and fifties. Here he would find nourished inspiration for ten beautiful works, almost all today heritage of important American museums. The book addresses for the first time the formal and symbolic routes with which the American painter built his Mexican work between 1943 and 1951. The aspects that made up the thematic and compositional elements present in the cities of Saltillo and Monterrey, in addition to clarifying the reasons behind the creative decisions that seasoned the enigmatic style that distinguishes his pieces made in Mexico, but that also inscribes them in his usual concerns.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [100]-[103]).
Language note
In Spanish.
ISBN
9786072720848
6072720846
LCCN
2024447082
OCLC
1402799489
RCP
N - S
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