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Untitled (Rooftops)
Author: Edward Hopper
Year: 1926 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Untitled (Rooftops)
Author: Edward HopperYear: 1926 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Now we need to complete this exploratory account of postmodernist space and time with a final
analysis of that euphoria or those intensities which seem so often to characterize the newer
cultural experience. Let us reemphasize the enormity of a transition which leaves behind it the
desolation of Hopper's buildings or the stark Midwest syntax of Sheeler's forms, replacing them
with the extraordinary surfaces of the photorealist cityscape, where even the automobile wrecks
gleam with some new hallucinatory splendor. The exhilaration of these new surfaces is all the more paradoxical in that their essential content -- the city itself -- has deteriorated or disintegrated to a degree surely still inconceivable in the early years of the twentieth century, let alone in the previous era.
Now we need to complete this exploratory account of postmodernist space and time with a final
analysis of that euphoria or those intensities which seem so often to characterize the newer
cultural experience. Let us reemphasize the enormity of a transition which leaves behind it the
desolation of Hopper's buildings or the stark Midwest syntax of Sheeler's forms, replacing them
with the extraordinary surfaces of the photorealist cityscape, where even the automobile wrecks
gleam with some new hallucinatory splendor. The exhilaration of these new surfaces is all the more paradoxical in that their essential content -- the city itself -- has deteriorated or disintegrated to a degree surely still inconceivable in the early years of the twentieth century, let alone in the previous era.
Source type: pictureInfo: Edward Hopper "Untitled (Rooftops)” - 1926
Original size: 800x514 px. Edit
Midwest
Author: Charles Sheeler
Year: 1954 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Midwest
Author: Charles SheelerYear: 1954 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Now we need to complete this exploratory account of postmodernist space and time with a final
analysis of that euphoria or those intensities which seem so often to characterize the newer
cultural experience. Let us reemphasize the enormity of a transition which leaves behind it the
desolation of Hopper's buildings or the stark Midwest syntax of Sheeler's forms, replacing them
with the extraordinary surfaces of the photorealist cityscape, where even the automobile wrecks
gleam with some new hallucinatory splendor. The exhilaration of these new surfaces is all the more paradoxical in that their essential content -- the city itself -- has deteriorated or disintegrated to a degree surely still inconceivable in the early years of the twentieth century, let alone in the previous era.
Now we need to complete this exploratory account of postmodernist space and time with a final
analysis of that euphoria or those intensities which seem so often to characterize the newer
cultural experience. Let us reemphasize the enormity of a transition which leaves behind it the
desolation of Hopper's buildings or the stark Midwest syntax of Sheeler's forms, replacing them
with the extraordinary surfaces of the photorealist cityscape, where even the automobile wrecks
gleam with some new hallucinatory splendor. The exhilaration of these new surfaces is all the more paradoxical in that their essential content -- the city itself -- has deteriorated or disintegrated to a degree surely still inconceivable in the early years of the twentieth century, let alone in the previous era.
Source type: pictureInfo: Midwest - Charles Sheeler - 1954 / Walker Art Center
Original size: 1000x553 px. Edit