Focusing in on the visual arts of this questioning time, standards are thrown out of the proverbial window. The theme of isolation remains consistent throughout many works. New York artist Edward Hopper presented a scheme of meaningless relationships and quiet desperation in regards to urban America; he exacts this feeling in his 1942 painting Nighthawks, where a sallow light is cast from an all-night diner onto an empty street in a big city while four individuals sit in the seeming silence of the sterile surroundings. A later artist, Alberto Giacometti, used a clay medium cast in bronze to conjure eerie, spindly silhouettes of five figures on one plane, who seem to have no direction, no interaction, no life, in his acclaimed City Square. The sculpture represents the existentialist view as each of the burnt-looking characters look as though they

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