Tuesday 15 June 2004
18.30 - 20.00
Victor Burgin on Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper Office at Night  1940 © Collection Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis Gift of the TB Walker Foundation, Gilbert M Walker Fund 1948

'The picture was probably first suggested by many rides on the 'L' train in New York City after dark and glimpses of office interiors that were so fleeting as to leave fresh and vivid impressions on my mind', Hopper wrote of his famous painting Office at Night 1940.

The British artist Victor Burgin has suggested that the image of a female secretary and male boss can be read in terms of ‘the organization of sexuality for capitalism’. In 1986 Burgin made a celebrated series of photographic works based on Hopper’s picture, in which the secretary explores the office around her. Burgin will describe his working relationship to Hopper and the contemporary concerns which informed his own Office At Night series.

See also: Edward Hopper exhibition at Tate Modern

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

£5 (£3.50 concessions), booking recommended

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