The primary goals and objectives of this unit are the following:
To gain a pictorial sense of America’s cities, towns, seasides, and western plains during the early years of the 20th century.
To examine the technological improvements in America as we
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today’s cities and towns and those of Edward Hopper’s era.
To foster an artistic appreciation and a sense of the monumental size of each project as the artist goes about his daily tasks.
To familiarize students with the nomenclature, the style, and the subtle techniques employed by the artist to deliver messages of underlying meaning.
To utilize (10) prints of Edward Hopper which span the fifty plus years of his work as separate but unified chapters of a narrative exposition.