Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this presidential material? In berating career politicians, Brown kept repeating. "There's a certain unreality here." But the unreality I saw lay in his perception and approach. I was hearing something I had only read about, seen in old Dennis Hopper movies, and heard my parents reminisce about: unapologetic, furious and bitter establishment-bashing. "I don't enjoy taking a crowbar" to the system, Brown said, but it was clear that he enjoyed it very much...
...toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have always put the food of their time in their still lifes, whether a jamon serrano by Velazquez or a baguette by Manet...
Another technique that Coles brings to his teaching is what he describes as his version of "interdisciplinary" learning: using literature together with art as a vehicle for social reflection. In both his freshman seminar and General Education course, for example, Coles juxtaposes Edward Hopper's paintings with Carver's short stories...
...Hopper street scenes and the people who he gives us in his paintings are ordinary American people struggling with the complexities of human life: the strains, the opportunities, the difficulties," Coles explains. "This is the same life that Carver evokes in his fiction...
...mattresses," said the hopper commandant...