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John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 701
EAN: 9780878465774
ISBN: 0878465774
Label: MFA Publications
Manufacturer: MFA Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 15, 2001
Publisher: MFA Publications
Release Date: December 02, 2000
Studio: MFA Publications
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Artwork by John Updike.
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Rating:  - A Delightful and Beautiful Book
In the 23 essays in JUST LOOKING: ESSAYS ON ART, John Updike is a delightful guide and insightful companion as he reviews art across the centuries. Throughout, Updike's voice is totally engaging, informed but never pedantic, respectful but not reverential. Here is a sample:
o "From his art, we might imagine him [Renoir] a plump, rosy, placid man, but in fact, he was bony-faced, nervous, reactionary, and restless."
o "This painting of Wertheimer tells us what we have been ... Read More
Rating:  - A Fine Art Critic Too!
Painting is to Updike what music was to Anthony Burgess: not so much a second love as a parallel infatuation. One always knew it from his prose: from the references to painters and painterly styles, and from the conspicuously visual quality of his description. It is good, then, to have this collection of the writer's thoughts on selected artists and art-works. He is neither too academic nor too personal in his opinions, and speaks with authority but without jargon. Of the longer essays, 'Something ... Read More
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