Modern Life is a beautiful and informative book and a fine introduction to this important group of twentieth-century artists. Edward Hopper: Portraits Of America (Pegasus) by Hopper, Edward, Schmied, Wieland and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Powerful and sometimes nostalgic, the works of Hopper and his contemporaries portray an earlier 'modern' America-yet one whose sense of isolation, estrangement, and vulnerability resonates equally well with today's increasingly fast-paced society. Edward Hopper, (born July 22, 1882, Nyack, N.Y., U.S. Together, these works-all owned by New York's Whitney Museum of American Art-illustrate the rapid development of cities, a central theme in American art prior to World War II.

And he makes perfecting clear that all of them belong to the working world, bound by commitments and obligations, carrying out an occupation that has worn them to its mold.

This new and sumptuously illustrated volume reproduces six of Hopper's major works, together with selections from more than thirty other well-known artists of the time, including Man Ray, German-American expressionist Lyonel Feininger, photographer and precisionist painter Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Hopper depicts people in places where their daily lives are played out: offices, restaurants, movie theaters, trains, hotels. A lifelong New Yorker, Hopper took the loneliness of big city life as one of his most persistent themes, and his often dark and remarkably realistic works have come to symbolize the melancholy of modern life. He is the author of many books on 19th and 20th century art, including monographs on Caspar David Friedrich, Alfred Kubin, Giorgio de Chirico, Edward Hopper, and Francis Bacon.One of the foremost chroniclers of pre-World War II American urbanism, painter and printmaker Edward Hopper depicted hauntingly isolated figures in diners, railroad cars, and rented rooms at the beginning of the twentieth century. Wieland Schmied (1929-2014) has organized numerous exhibitions and was President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1995-2004. This standard edition consists of the first volume of TASCHEN's limited edition Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928-2000, and offers a comprehensive presentation of Hundertwasser's work and life, with a detailed text by Hundertwasser's longtime friend Wieland Schmied. He became a symbolic figure, not only as a painter but also as an architect, ecologist, and philosopher, in particular for all those who are searching for a life tuned to the natural and the human. 'A world full of color,' said Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 'is synonymous with paradise.' With his demonstrations and actions, his manifestos for nature, for more human-oriented architecture, and for the improvement of the quality of life and living conditions, Friedensreich Hundertwasser was one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century. The life and work of the Austrian artist and architect

Edward Hopper by Wieland Schmied