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Iconography of Sustainability
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Excerpt from Iconography of Sustainability 3:
Hopper and Sustainability:
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(27.9.2022) Hopper biographer Gail Levin notes that in 1925, when American painter Edward Hopper visited the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, street lights were still lacking in that city. Hopper, apparently, did not much like the place, but provided us with a number of watercolors, some of which did not reflect, as the – modern – expectation to see street lights, progress, but rather, as it seems, the ever attractive possibility to build houses out of mudbrick. Thus Hopper, without knowing it, associated himself with the discourse of sustainability, because, today, such Adobe houses, are being discussed in the context of Sustainable architecture – and thus sustainability (see for example here). The Spaniards had named them, but the Native-Americans had built them (as other civilizations had, in other places around the world).
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