Louis Shadwick is an art historian and musician based in London. He is a leading authority on the American artist Edward Hopper.
His biography, Edward Hopper: A Life, published by Yale University Press, is now out in the US, and comes out on November 24 in the UK and Rest of World.
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Praise so far for Edward Hopper: A Life:
"Louis Shadwick’s book is a superb, well-researched study, providing a wealth of new information about Edward Hopper’s life and thoughtful insights into his work and the cultural, philosophic, and artistic contexts in which it developed."—Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Louis Shadwick’s beautifully written and researched biography does more than restore Hopper to his times: It shows how time ran through Hopper, linking his life from boyhood onwards in a continuous dream.”—Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
“Shadwick’s incisive analysis allows Hopper and his art to be understood as never before, in a biography for our current moment.”—Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol
“Shadwick’s outstanding biography of Hopper introduces the artist for a new generation.” —Carter Foster, author of Hopper Drawing
“Prodigious research informs a penetrating study… Shadwick makes an impressive debut with a comprehensive life of Edward Hopper that considers the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped him as well as the myths created about him… Scrupulously following Hopper’s artistic development, Shadwick closely analyzes his works… follows the couple on their travels, records the books each read, movies and plays they saw, exhibitions they attended, the juries Hopper served on, and the serious health problems that blighted their final years. In short, he has created a biography that deserves to be called definitive.”—’Starred Review’, Kirkus
“A vigorous portrayal of Hopper… Mr. Shadwick is an unflagging researcher and a clear expositor.”—Dan Hofstadter, The Wall Street Journal
“Well researched… engaging asides… Shadwick is correct to say that Hopper’s work was steeped in the iconography of the American Scene.”—Deborah Solomon, The New York Times
“The book contains a fuller account than we have had in the past, and a loosening of the carefully made identity of Americana that Hopper presented to the world… The approach is the right one. Hopper has been read as a painter of mood and loneliness for so long that the history behind that mood has been lost. Putting it back is overdue.”—Paul Carter Robinson, Artlyst
