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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... seem so bad after the promotion we presume is coming our way very soon. And even if no one visits our Web site and a new war starts and the promotion does not come tomorrow or six months or six years from now, still our optimism shall ...
... seems vaguely repulsed by the thin remnant of a sandwich she holds in her hand, one man with a hawkish face and lit cigarette, another bulky, hunched over. Who are they? What's their story? A rare bout of insomnia? Unemployed? Addicts ...
... seem so uncannily representative. The painting is undoubtedly a great work of art, likely the greatest realistic painting this country has produced. Moreover, as I shall argue in the pages that follow, Nighthawks is deeply relevant to ...
... seems when everyone else is for sale because that's the best way to get by. So the fifty-nine-year-old Hopper, world war or no world war, meticulously developed a scene based on a Greenwich Avenue restaurant that he spotted during one ...
... seem insufficient for omitting significant examples, yet overblown for ignoring both long-term antecedents and striking continuities. Even today, the nation is dotted with small towns where families like the Hoppers, with set beliefs ...
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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 |