Always Looking: Essays on Art
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307957306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, including twenty-three novels and dozens of collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. 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.. His work has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Cir
He is sensuously receptive and discerningly critical as he peers closely and steps back for a more encompassing gaze to assess how each artist brings paint to life. But in “The Clarity of Things,” his 2008 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, Updike discusses Picturing America—a set of 40 reproductions created by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities for use in schools and libraries, taking fresh approaches to Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, and Norman Rockwell and posing and answering the question, “What is American about American art?” For all their immediacy, Updike’s vital works of art criticism are timeless. --Donna Seaman . Most of the essays are scintillating and learned biographical and aesthetic responses to major museum exhibits of such artists as Édo
Updike at His Relaxed Best Great Faulkner's Ghost Arguably America's last great man of letters, the late John Updike's interests ranged from art, to literature, children's books, and occasionally to golf. With the exception of literature, in which he wrote from the perspective of a foremost practitioner, he was, as he admits himself, more of a well-informed dabb. "An interesting path in the art and literature." according to Edoardo Angeloni. Here Updike defines his back-ground by a point of view of art. First we can learn the characteristics of important painters of landscapes, or of human faces of great personalities. Those aspects run with a certain interest by the lector, but, when Updike passes to consider the great painters of our times, the con. Edith Lorah said Great book.. I love this book. Pictures and comments are great.
Always Looking opens with “The Clarity of Things,” the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008. 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.. John Updike was a gallery-goer of genius. In this posthumous collection of John Updike’s art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) 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). Here, in looking closely at individual works by Copley, Homer, Eakins, Norman Rockwell, and others, the author teases out what is characteri