Arena (1975)

Edward Hopper (1981x5)

Air date: Feb 21, 1981

Arena marks a major retrospective exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery with a film about the great American realist painter Edward Hopper. His subject is the face of America - haunting, unforgettable images of late-night bars, lonely hotel rooms, sunlit buildings and isolated figures. Through them we glimpse an aspect of America, austere and un-idealised, which we now recognise as familiar. But Hopper was not a recorder of externals.