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Always Looking: Essays on Art
A dazzling collection of "remarkably elegant essays" (Newsday) on art--and the companion volume to the celebrated Just...
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A dazzling collection of "remarkably elegant essays" (Newsday) on art--and the companion volume to the celebrated Just Looking and Still Looking--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.
In this book, readers are treated to a collection in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" (The New York Times Book Review). Always Looking opens with "The Clarity of Things," the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008. Here, in looking closely at individual works by Copley, Homer, Eakins, Norman Rockwell, and others, the author teases out what is characteristically "American" in American art. This talk is followed by fourteen essays, most of them written for The New York Review of Books, on certain highlights in Western art of the last two hundred years: the iconic portraits of Gilbert Stuart and the sublime landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, the series paintings of Monet and the monotypes of Degas, the richly patterned canvases of Vuillard and the golden extravagances of Klimt, the cryptic triptychs of Beckmann, the personal graffiti of Miró, the verbal-visual puzzles of Magritte, and the monumental Pop of Oldenburg and Lichtenstein. The book ends with a consideration of recent works by a living American master, the steely sculptural environments of Richard Serra. John Updike was a gallery-goer of genius. Always Looking is, like everything else he wrote, an invitation to look, to see, to apprehend the visual world through the eyes of a connoisseur.
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/27/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 10.33h x 8.47w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780307957306
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 10/08/2012
Booklist 11/01/2012 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 12/02/2012 pg. 54
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012
New York Times Book Review 12/09/2012 pg. 30
Library Journal 01/01/2013 pg. 91
Choice 05/01/2013
About the Author
JOHN 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. CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is a member of the staff of The Library of America and the editor of John Updike's Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism.
In this book, readers are treated to a collection in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" (The New York Times Book Review). Always Looking opens with "The Clarity of Things," the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008. Here, in looking closely at individual works by Copley, Homer, Eakins, Norman Rockwell, and others, the author teases out what is characteristically "American" in American art. This talk is followed by fourteen essays, most of them written for The New York Review of Books, on certain highlights in Western art of the last two hundred years: the iconic portraits of Gilbert Stuart and the sublime landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, the series paintings of Monet and the monotypes of Degas, the richly patterned canvases of Vuillard and the golden extravagances of Klimt, the cryptic triptychs of Beckmann, the personal graffiti of Miró, the verbal-visual puzzles of Magritte, and the monumental Pop of Oldenburg and Lichtenstein. The book ends with a consideration of recent works by a living American master, the steely sculptural environments of Richard Serra. John Updike was a gallery-goer of genius. Always Looking is, like everything else he wrote, an invitation to look, to see, to apprehend the visual world through the eyes of a connoisseur.
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/27/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 10.33h x 8.47w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780307957306
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 10/08/2012
Booklist 11/01/2012 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 12/02/2012 pg. 54
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012
New York Times Book Review 12/09/2012 pg. 30
Library Journal 01/01/2013 pg. 91
Choice 05/01/2013
About the Author
JOHN 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. CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is a member of the staff of The Library of America and the editor of John Updike's Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism.
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