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美国国家公共电台 NPR One Night In An Edward Hopper Hotel Room? It's Less Lonely Than You Might Think

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One Night In An Edward Hopper Hotel Room? It's Less Lonely Than You Might Think

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Fans jam museums when an Edward Hopper show is on. He painted people drinking coffee in a late-night diner, women at windows leaning into the sunshine, scenes where the light and shadow are everything. "Edward Hopper And The American Hotel" is an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and it includes a 3D version of one of Hopper's best-known scenes, which is a hotel room. NPR's Susan Stamberg had a chance to check in for the night.

SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE1: For 150 bucks2, you can sleep in that Hopper reproduction - just you in your jammies in a gallery and outside in the hall, a guard.

I've got to say, it feels a little funny getting undressed in a museum. There's plenty of nudes4 on the walls, but you don't expect to find yourself one in a room.

LEO MAZOW: This is a more or less facsimile of Edward Hopper's 1957 masterpiece Western Motel.

STAMBERG: To be clear, Leo Mazow was not in the room with me, but the curator did describe the painting my room recreated. Western Motel - big picture window overlooking mesas, a green Buick parked outside, that thin Hopper light streaming in, two leather suitcases, upholstered armchair, big bed with a burgundy spread. Sitting on a corner of the bed, a guest - not me. She's blond and fully5 clothed. Behind her...

MAZOW: A bedside table on which is a mid-century modern clock and a gooseneck lamp.

STAMBERG: And what's happening with her? No idea. She is just sitting there. Hopper doesn't do narratives6.

MAZOW: Unless we admit that waiting has a storyline all of its own.

STAMBERG: My storyline is to spend the night in this room alone in a gallery.

It feels like a firm bed. So far, so good.

No bathroom in the painting, so I have to go out into the museum to do my ablutions.

Floss time.

Back across into the painting and waiting to sleep - waiting. Hopper's people in various hotel rooms, dressed and undressed, they're all waiting for something. In a 1944 canvas Morning In A City, a nude3 redhead - all his models were his wife Josephine, at her insistence7 - the woman stands by her bed holding something white - a towel? a blouse? - and looking out the window.

MAZOW: She isn't sure what she's doing. She's pondering her next move.

STAMBERG: In another hotel room from 1931, a semi-dressed woman sits on her bed. Hey, it's the same bed I slept in. And there's the same luggage. She's reading a train schedule.

MAZOW: We see moments of pause - those in-betweens that interest us. It's isolation8. It's alienation9. But it's also coming to a pause when there's really nowhere to go and nothing to do.

STAMBERG: Hopper's people, in rooms that look antiseptic but could smell of cigars, indeed seem alienated10. But he once said, I think the loneliness thing is overdone11. Here's an excerpt12 from an interview he gave in 1961. Scratchy old tape - so years ago, I translated it.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

EDWARD HOPPER: Those are the words of critics. And...

STAMBERG: Those are the words of critics, Hopper said. He can't always agree with them.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

HOPPER: ...You know? It may be true, or it may not be true.

STAMBERG: It may or may not be true. It's how the viewer looks on the pictures.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

HOPPER: ...How the viewer looks on the pictures...

STAMBERG: What he sees in them, what they really are.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

HOPPER: What they really are.

STAMBERG: Could that be?

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

HOPPER: Could that be?

STAMBERG: Could it? Could it?

MAZOW: I guess I'm interested in what kind of alienation and isolation it is.

STAMBERG: Again, curator Leo Mazow.

MAZOW: Maybe we should rethink these paintings. Maybe alienation and isolation, wonderful modernist buzzwords as they are - and useful ones - maybe they don't always carry a negative connotation.

STAMBERG: Maybe they're moments to collect yourself, pull yourself together. I must say, I woke up the next morning in the Hopper Room at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond expecting to feel lonely. Instead, I'd had a good night's sleep, felt rested and ready to leave the manufactured Western Motel room to go around the corner and look at the painted one and others in new ways.

I'm Susan Stamberg, NPR News.


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n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
2 bucks a391832ce78ebbcfc3ed483cc6d17634     
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
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  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 nude CHLxF     
adj.裸体的;n.裸体者,裸体艺术品
参考例句:
  • It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
  • She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。
4 nudes a9603eec66f6f55210693b0ef1f315ad     
(绘画、照片或雕塑)裸体( nude的名词复数 )
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  • He also drew Chinese opera figures, nudes and still lives. 他还画戏曲人物画、裸女、瓶花静物等。
5 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
6 narratives 91f2774e518576e3f5253e0a9c364ac7     
记叙文( narrative的名词复数 ); 故事; 叙述; 叙述部分
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  • Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点,然而也是一个伟大的开始。
  • This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。
7 insistence A6qxB     
n.坚持;强调;坚决主张
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  • They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
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8 isolation 7qMzTS     
n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
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  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
9 alienation JfYyS     
n.疏远;离间;异化
参考例句:
  • The new policy resulted in the alienation of many voters.新政策导致许多选民疏远了。
  • As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated,the alienation index goes up.随着人与人之间几乎一切能想到的接触方式的自动化,感情疏远指数在不断上升。
10 alienated Ozyz55     
adj.感到孤独的,不合群的v.使疏远( alienate的过去式和过去分词 );使不友好;转让;让渡(财产等)
参考例句:
  • His comments have alienated a lot of young voters. 他的言论使许多年轻选民离他而去。
  • The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers. 首相的政策使很多拥护她的人疏远了她。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 overdone 54a8692d591ace3339fb763b91574b53     
v.做得过分( overdo的过去分词 );太夸张;把…煮得太久;(工作等)过度
参考例句:
  • The lust of men must not be overdone. 人们的欲望不该过分。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The joke is overdone. 玩笑开得过火。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
12 excerpt hzVyv     
n.摘录,选录,节录
参考例句:
  • This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
  • Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗?
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