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Approaching a City, 1946 by Edward Hopper. In the rare cases when Edward Hopper depicts rails running into the picture, a sense of threat accompanies them. In Approaching a City, 1946, Hopper couches this sense in a compelling visual metaphor: a cavernous tunnel leading into the bowels of the city. It opens out to receive the traveller like a ...
Ultimately, Approaching a City conveys a paradox of contemporary life. The unseen traveler of the image is caught in a curious limbo and isolation between city and country. The railroad made faraway places accessible to ordinary people, but it also made those places less distinctive.
Hopper’s New York is a city that revels in the interplay between urban space and imagination, the city as it existed and as the artist willed it to be. I have taken inspiration here from Rebecca Solnit’s articulation of what make cities matter and what makes them more than just a point on a map.
Hopper painted “Approaching the City” in 1946, which I think is significant. Most Americans had reason to believe 1946 marked, finally, an awakening from years of nightmare: world-wide economic Depression, the rise of totalitarian regimes, the Holocaust, the horrible destruction of WWII.
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Oct 8, 2013 · Here are seven of the world’s most fascinating lost cities. Troy CANAKKALE, TURKEY The ruins of Troy. Jorge Lascar/CC BY 2.0. Troy, city of heroes, was the setting of Homer’s epic Iliad. The ...
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This sad, claustrophobic urban scene by Edward Hopper, with its flat, rearing tenement blocks, its long, blank-faced, featureless wall (which occupies about 30 per cent of the painting), and its...
