Still Looking

Still Looking

by John Updike
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/02/2006

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In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern painter and graphic artist James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the early twentieth century - and concludes with appreciations of the art of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of essays is proof that Updike is still looking and seeing what only he can describe.


'As a writer Updike can do anything he wants' Margaret Atwood


'John Updike writes with a steady brilliance about the world out there' Guardian

ISBN:
9780141921822
9780141921822
Category:
Theory of art
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-02-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
John Updike

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.

His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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