Staying up much too late : Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the dark side of the American psyche / Gordon Theisen.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : T. Dunne Books, 2006Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 244 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312333420
- 9780312333423
- 759.130904 22
- ND237.H75 A74 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 759.130904 HOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A407015B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The making of the painting, or how to be a stranger in your own land -- 2. One man, one big damned city -- 3. The end of the world came sometime yesterday -- 4. When freedom means you don't know who you are -- 5. Wayward lust, part 1 : hard-core Nighthawks -- 6. Wayward lust, part 2 : wicked women and weak-willed men -- 7. Cheap cigars and Ex-lax -- 8. How to expect failure and avoid disappointment -- 9. Desperate schemes -- 10. America noir.
"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 noir."--BOOK JACKET.
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