Knopf Publishing Group | ISBN:0307957306 | File Type: PDF, 224 pages | File size: 50.Mb | Nov. 27th, 2012
Art Criticism and Art Theory: Essays on Art A master in art appreciation with a great American man of letters In this lavishly illustrated collection of John Updike s recent art writings a posthumous companion 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 The first essay The Clarity of Things was the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008 and perhaps Updike s major statement as art critic here by looking closely at Copley Homer Abstract Expressionism and op he explores what is American in American art This is followed by fourteen essays most of them written for The New York Review of Books on masterpieces of American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the sublime landscapes of Frederic Church and the series paintings of Monet and Degas to the verbal visual puzzles of Magritte and the steely scptural environments of Richard Serra With more than 200 fl color reproductions Always Looking is like everything else that Updike wrote an invitation to see the world afresh through the eyes of a matchless connoisseur
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