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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... interest, the resulting competition forcing manufacturers to fit their products to customers' evolving desires, to the ever-increasing satisfaction of . . . everyone! Maybe so, but the Dow did not rise to 36,000 (as the title of a 1999 ...
... done anyway. While the country as a whole, pretty much overnight, committed itself to total war, “Ed,” as his wife, Josephine “Jo” Hopper, recorded in her journal, “refused to take any interest in our very likely prospect of.
... interest in our very likely prospect of being bombed. . . . He's doing a new canvas and simply can't be interrupted ... interests of his client (even when that so-called client hasn't actually hired him or attempts to halt his ...
... interest in often idealized American settings done in a plainly realistic (i.e., not avant-garde, not European, and hold the flourishes) style. Now in his forties, Hopper suddenly achieved renown as a portrayer of the “American scene ...
... interests were trying to regain market share from cigarettes, which had been rolled by machine since the mid-1880s. The soft, brimmed, dark-banded hats worn by the diner's male customers—fedoras—were, along with their suits and ties ...
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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 |