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Still Looking: Essays on American Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781400044184)
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xFrom a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes a richly illustrated book of eighteen insightful essays about American art, written while he was the art critic at The New York Review of Books.
"Remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end." --Newsday
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike's writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, "He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it." In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, "The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both."
Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 1400044189
ISBN-13: 9781400044184
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2005
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.38lbs
Size: 10.37h x 8.15w x 0.90d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2005 pg. 55
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 42
Booklist 09/15/2005 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2005 pg. 964
Library Journal 11/01/2005 pg. 76
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2006 pg. 6
New York Review of Books 06/22/2006 pg. 60
Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1816
"Remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end." --Newsday
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike's writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, "He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it." In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, "The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both."
Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 1400044189
ISBN-13: 9781400044184
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2005
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.38lbs
Size: 10.37h x 8.15w x 0.90d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2005 pg. 55
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 42
Booklist 09/15/2005 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2005 pg. 964
Library Journal 11/01/2005 pg. 76
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2006 pg. 6
New York Review of Books 06/22/2006 pg. 60
Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1816
By John Updike
xJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.
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