{"product_id":"still-lookingisbn-9781400044184","title":"Still Looking","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes a richly illustrated book of eighteen insightful essays about American art, written while he was the art critic at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title \u003ci\u003eJust Looking,\u003c\/i\u003e a reviewer in the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand from fifty or so articles has selected, for this book, eighteen that deal with American art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, \u003ci\u003eStill Looking\u003c\/i\u003e then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerica speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, “The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.”\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction:  An Oil on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American Face   \u003ci\u003e[Portraits]\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNature His Only Instructor  \u003ci\u003e[John Singleton Copley]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“O Beautiful for Spacious Skies”  \u003ci\u003e[Nineteenth-Century Landscapes]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeade Storms  \u003ci\u003e[Martin Johnson Heade]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpic Homer  \u003ci\u003e[Winslow Homer]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ache in Eakins  \u003ci\u003e[Thomas Eakins]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhistler in the Dark  \u003ci\u003e[James McNeill Whistler]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Better Than Nature”  \u003ci\u003e[Albert Pinkham Ryder]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalls That Talk too Much \u003ci\u003e[Impressionists and Realists]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStreet Arab \u003ci\u003e[Childe Hassam]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvangel of the Lens \u003ci\u003e[Alfred Stieglitz]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A Lone Left Thing” \u003ci\u003e[Marsden Hartley]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO Pioneer! \u003ci\u003e[Arthur Dove]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo Takes on Hopper \u003ci\u003e[Edward Hopper]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLogic Is Beautiful \u003ci\u003e[Elie Nadelman]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackson Whole \u003ci\u003e[Jackson Pollock]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIconic Andy \u003ci\u003e[Andy Warhol]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eOn Looking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003eJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303012487397,"sku":"NP9781400044184","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400044184.jpg?v=1730752739","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/still-lookingisbn-9781400044184","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}