Published: 2021-12-19

Car Painting in America: Edward Hopper's Vision of the Road

Ewa Wylezek-Targosz Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of three paintings by one of the greatest American realist painters, Edward Hopper. The three selected works share a common denominator: they all address the concept of a car and the influence it has on the nation’s life—it has altered the way people traveled and expressed their identity. A car in Hopper’s works serves a twofold function, it allows its drivers and passengers to experience the land more as they can travel wherever they desire but, on the other hand, it contributes to a separation from their environment as the journey involves fragmentariness and rootlessness. 

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Wylezek-Targosz, E. (2021). Car Painting in America: Edward Hopper’s Vision of the Road. Review of International American Studies, 14(2), 75–88. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11806

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Car Culture(s): Machines, Roads, Mythologies

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-19


eISSN: 1991-2773
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RIAS

Publisher
University of Silesia Press

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