Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American PsycheMacmillan, 2007年4月1日 - 256 頁 A fascinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture. |
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... Blue Velvet (1986), Basic Instinct (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Matrix (1999). Basic Instinct happens to include, I noticed recently, a late-night diner scene. Underrated by critics, Basic Instinct achieved easy notoriety for ...
... Blue (1959), one of the greatest and most popular jazz albums, nicely complements Nighthawks as a sort of soundtrack. All of which suggested to me that what keeps Nighthawks fresh and striking despite its familiarity is that it evokes a ...
... blue silhouette of a factory in the distance. At once ordinary and desolate, the painting won him some early praise when exhibited in 1915. Wider recognition did not come until 1923, when he exhibited a series of brilliant watercolors ...
... blue eyes, brown hair that he parted down the middle, and surprisingly full, sensual lips, decided to take advantage of his talent for drawing. He did not and could not simply declare himself an artist in the higher sense. His parents ...
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Chapter 2 One Man One Big Damned City | 41 |
Chapter 3 The End of the World Came Sometime Yesterday | 60 |
Chapter 4 When Freedom Means You Dont Know Who You Are | 82 |
Hardcore Nighthawks | 102 |
Wicked Women and WeakWilled Men | 122 |
Chapter 7 Cheap Cigars and ExLax | 144 |
Chapter 8 How to Expect Failure and Avoid Disappointment | 165 |
Chapter 9 Desperate Schemes | 185 |
Chapter 10 America Noir | 205 |
Notes on Sources | 223 |
Acknowledgments | 233 |
Index | 235 |