Jean-Paul Sartre's existential philosophy concerns the free human individual,particularly his possibilities to continuously create his own identities. Human existence isnever defined by objects, and he is only determined by his own actions. As long as he isalive. he possesses this freedom and never ceases to project himself into the future. Theundefined nature of human existence is conceived as human beings on the move. A studyof this sense as it is revealed in the art helps us feel and embrace the fundamental core ofSartre's thought.In this dissertation, I examine selected works of American novelist Walker Percy,painter Edward Hopper, and director Mike Nichols with special attention to the depictionof the human being as a conscious being who is keeping a sense of wonder so as to staveoff the everydayness, who is imagining a new world into the unknown so as todemonstrate his strong interiority, and who is searching for a true life so as to exhibit hisauthenticity. Binx in Percy's The Moviegoer, women in solitude in Hopper's oil paintings,and Ben in Nichols' The Graduate are reflecting the sense of human beings on the movein graceful manner.My reading of artists' presentations of human consciousness links the chapters. When the human being is conscious of his existence, he is able to transcend himself, andhe lives in hope. My understanding of the concepts such as being-in-itself,being-for-itself, bad faith, and authenticity are primarily formed in Sartre's Being andNothingness and his Existentialism Is a Humanism.
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A Sartrean reading of American artists : Walker Percy, Edward Hopper, and Mike Nichols 1940-1970.
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