John Updike

Always Looking (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Art
Redaktion: Carduff, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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). 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307961839
• Artikelnr.: 39250074

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE: PICTURES AND WORDS “THE CLARITY OF THINGS” [Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008] MAKING FACES [Gilbert Stuart
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
October 21
2004–January 16
2005] THE LOVE OF FACTS [Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
at the National Academy Museum
New York
February 9–April 30
2006] THE ARTFUL CLARKS [The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings
at the Sterlin and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Massachusetts
June 4–September 4
2006] MANY MONETS [Monet in the ‘90s: The Series Paintings
at the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
February 7–April 29
1990] DEGAS OUT-OF-DOORS [Degas Landscapes
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
January 21–April 3
1994] AN INTIMATE WHIRLWIND [The Intimate Interiors of Édouard Vuillard
at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn
New York
May 18–July 30
1990] GOLD AND GELD [Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections
at Neue Galerie in New York
October 18
2007–June 30
2008] BRIDGES TO THE INVISIBLE [Max Beckmann in Exile
at the Guggenheim Museum Soho
New York
October 9
1996–January 5
1997] MIRÓ AT MOMA [Joan Miró
at the Museum of Modern Art
New York
October 17
1993–January 11
1994] THE ART OF OUR DISORDER [Surrealism USA
at the National Academy Museum
New York
February 17–May 8
2005] MAGRITTE THE GREAT [Magritte
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
September 12–November 12
1992] A CASE OF MONUMENTALITY [Claes Oldenburg’s Closepin] BIG
BRIGHT
AND BENDAYED [Roy Lichtenstein
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York
October 8
1993–January 16
1994] SERRA’S TRIUMPH [Richard Serra: Forty Years
at the Museum of Modern Art
New York
June 3–September 10
2007]