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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... look especially friendly, and they don't look as if they are enjoying themselves. More: They don't look as if they are headed anywhere in particular, that their lives are on an upward trajectory, that they harbor expectations. Rather, a ...
... look of which was directly inspired by Edward Hopper's desolate 1942 masterpiece, Nighthawks. Haunting but immensely popular (in a country where high art is not highly regarded, useless as it is), this painting of lonely figures in an ...
... ). Hopper influenced the look of Charles Addams's wonderfully macabre cartoons detailing the antics of the Addams Family, which initially appeared in The New Yorker in 1938 and later became the basis for Staying Up Much Too Late □ 11.
... look in an era that gave rise to such pinup queens as leggy Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. All of which, while typical, may well have lent itself to a personal vision for an artist for whom such details were remarkable because of who ...
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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 |