Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche

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A fascinating observe of Edward Hopper’s iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for working out American culture.
 
Staying up Much Too Overdue 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
 
What links these together is the painting’s pessimistic tackle American culture, which it also turns out to epitomize. Regardless of its desolate feel, Nighthawks has grow to be a familiar icon, reproduced on posters and postcards, in movies and on tv shows. But Nighthawks is more than only a masterful painting. This is a portal into that rarely acknowledged but pervasive dark side of the American psyche.

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