Hopperian

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1. Of or relating to Edward Hopper (1882–1967), an American painter.

   Safety is danger, and Hopperian light has the poured quality of darkness.

   1995 June 24, “HOPPER’S VISION OF HELL”, in The Washington Post

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   Another poet of “fear and trembling” is Ira Sadoff, and I was not at all surprised to find a prose-poem inspired by Edward Hopper’s painting “Nighthawks” in the middle of Sadoff’s first collection, Settling Down (Houghton Mifflin, $3.95). Sadoff’s poems are mostly Hopperian — evocations of a still emptiness […]

   1976, The Western Humanities Review, pages 84–85

   The etching evening wind (see page 50) shows us the ornamental dialectics between the Hopperian interior and its exterior counterpart, is transcendence into the imaginary other.

   2008, Western Motel: Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art, page 36