Blair's painterly use of mise-en-sc ne evokes the influence of Edward Hopper's cinema-inspired tableaux This volume builds on a developing body of scholarship linking the American painters Dike Blair (born 1952) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967) to each other. In both Hopper's tableaux and Blair's mise-en-sc nes, light is a character in its own right, whether casting an eerie pallor on a desolate interior or illuminating the...