Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche
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- Synopsis
- A fascinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture.Staying up Much Too Late discusses the painting Nighthawks and the painter Edward Hopper and their central importance to twentieth-century American culture. Topics include individualism, New York City, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, diners, pornography, capitalism, advertising, cigarettes, American philosophy, World War II, Gravity's Rainbow, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Russ Meyer, R. Crumb, David Lynch, and film noirWhat links these together is the painting's pessimistic take on American culture, which it also seems to epitomize. Despite its desolate feel, Nighthawks has become a familiar icon, reproduced on posters and postcards, in movies and on television shows. But Nighthawks is more than just a masterful painting. It is a portal into that rarely acknowledged but pervasive dark side of the American psyche.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781429909488
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780312333423
- Publisher:
- ST. MARTIN'S PUBLISHING GROUP
- Date of Addition:
- 04/15/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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