Book description
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
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania, and died
in January 2009. 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 and
after 1957 lived in Massachusetts until his death. His novels have won
the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award,
the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the
Howells Medal.
