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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... sense” and “justice” are not imposed by society or learned but “innate” in each of us (as Jefferson once maintained in a letter to John Adams)—were commonplace among preachers of the day. They had inherited the spiritual fires lit ...
... sense of humor, and trillions of dollars disappeared. But the optimism endured and continues to shape every aspect of our lives, giving happy endings to the enormously expensive movies we watch, a triumphant sensibility to our careers ...
... sense of disaster pervades everything: the diner, the customers, the server, the empty street outside, the buildings across the way. They inhabit a different America, a flip side of the one we are used to, a cooler, jazzier, deeply ...
... sense of himself as cleaving to a singular vocation, however propitious (or not) the trends might be. He would not give in to the art market any more than he gave in to the market for commercial illustration, which he would never again ...
... sense of place to it, one that depends upon, and even helps to define, an American way of living. But Hopper came to reject the term: “I don't think I ever tried to paint the American scene.” This was partly a matter of professional ...
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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 |