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- Title
The World without a Self: Edward Hopper and Chantal Akerman.
- Authors
Iversen, Margaret
- Abstract
Hopper once remarked that he had always been intrigued by the question of what a room looks like ‘when there was nobody to see it, nobody looking in even’. This is a question also posed by his exact contemporary Virginia Woolf who wondered in The Waves, ‘but how describe the world seen without a self?’ This essay makes use of Ann Banfield's account of Woolf's writing from an ‘unoccupied perspective’ for a reading of Hopper's paintings and, secondarily, of Chantal Akerman's films. In addition, it argues that the most effective means that they found to convey this viewpoint was from a passing train or car.
- Subjects
HOPPER, Edward, 1882-1967; AKERMAN, Chantal, 1950-2015; RAILROADS in art; AUTOMOBILES in art; AUTOMOBILES in motion pictures; RAILROADS in motion pictures; WOOLF, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Publication
Art History, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p742
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12398