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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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John Updike. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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John Updike,. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf November 2005, 2005.
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Description: When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike's writings on art appeared under the title 'Just Looking,' a reviewer in the 'San Francisco Chronicle '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 has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for 'The New York Review of Books,' and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, 'Still Looking' 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. America 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.' On' Just Looking' '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.'--Arthur Danto, 'The New York Times Book Review' '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.' --Jeremy Strick, 'Newsday' John Updike, moonlighting as art critic, now gathers together in this richly illustrated book 18 of his remarkable pieces, all dealing with American art. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Spine and front gutter of book with some insect damage. Interior pages in very good condition. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth, xv, 222 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "When, in 1989, a collection of John Updikes writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle 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 has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking 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. America 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.' / John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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 since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The American face; Nature his only instructor; "O beautiful for spacious skies"; Heade storms; Epic Homer; The ache in Eakins; Whistler in the dark; "Better than nature"; Walls that talk too much; Street Arab; Evangel of the lens; "A lone left thing"; O pioneer!; Logic is beautiful; Hopper's polluted silence; Early Sunday morning; Jackson whole; Iconic Andy. Size: 4to
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Description: Black stamped cloth, color illus. dust jacket. xv, 222 pp. 223 color illustrations. A sequel to Updike's first collection of art writings, "Just Looking," released in 1989. Contains 19 separate essays that deal with a wide range of American artists: John SIngleton Copley, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whisterl, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. Nice! VG/VG. One copy may have marks from previous gallery owner.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Condition: Fine
Description: As New. Tight, clean and crisp. With just a faint hint of shelf wear to bottom of boards, otherwise an excellent First Printing of the First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. As New. ; 240 pages
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: 222 pp., xv. Stated "First Edition". Black boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated. Contents divided into 19 essays and Index, pp. 215-219; Photographic Credits, pp. 220-222. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped ($40.00) with three illustrations of American iconic paintings on front cover; Author and Title lettering in white at top right front cover: Flawless dustwrapper, As New. Tiny tips of white at lower cover corners and bottom spine corners; some odd pinpoint-sized speckles on part of bottom 2 3/4" of fore-edge (describes worse than it is, but there you have it): Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls, despite tiny bits of white); NO previous owner names; NO shelf wear or edgewear. Clean text.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY, 2005.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition stated on verso of title page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with color reproductions of American paintings; 222 pages
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Fine
Description: Large format book, illustrated with color photographs, 222 pages.
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UPDIKE, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Fine
Description: 223 color illustrations. xv + 222 pages, tall 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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John Updike. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: 222 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's 223 color art reproductions. The novelist's second collection of essays on art, 18 pieces selected by him chiefly from his writings as art critic for the New York Review of BOoks, keyed to exhibitions he visited, including single-artist shows of Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and others, up to Andy Warhol. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on boards, printed on semi-gloss stock, very slight wear to corners/crown/heel. Pages unmarked. Unclipped DJ shows wear and rubbing along edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in Harvard's Houghton Library; laid in is a "With the compliments of the author card" from Knopf. Also laid in is an appreciation of this book, clipped from Harvard Magazine of April 2006.
Seller: Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking; Essays on AMerican Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Description: xv, 222p., colored illuis., dj, quarto format.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. 222pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays on John Singleton Copley, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whisterl, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.
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John Updike,. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf November 2005, 2005.
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Description: When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike's writings on art appeared under the title 'Just Looking,' a reviewer in the 'San Francisco Chronicle '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 has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for 'The New York Review of Books,' and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, 'Still Looking' 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. America 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.' On' Just Looking' '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.'--Arthur Danto, 'The New York Times Book Review' '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.' --Jeremy Strick, 'Newsday' John Updike, moonlighting as art critic, now gathers together in this richly illustrated book 18 of his remarkable pieces, all dealing with American art. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art Updike, John. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. STILL LOOKING: ESSAYS ON AMERICA. Knopf, 2005.
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Updike, John. Still Looking Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover copy with d/j, xv + 222 pp, text and 4/C illus. throughout (223), 5 pp index
Seller: Olana Gallery, Brewster, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art - SIGNED. Knopf, 2005.
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Condition: As New
Description: Knopf, 2006. Hard cover, 2nd printing; signed by author John Updike on title page. Also has a presentation sticker on the flyleaf, otherwise Fine condition in Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Turgid Tomes, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine
Description: A wonderful first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. This copy is signed by author John Updike directly on the title page; America 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." This collection of essays on American Art expounds on artists from Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman and Jackson Pollock ; 8vo; Signed by Author
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John Updike. STILL LOOKING Essays on American Art. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Description: Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 10.1 X 7.8 X 1.0 inches; 240 pages.
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: As New
Description: 222 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. Signed by Updike on the title pages. 18 illustrated essays about American art. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking; Still Looking; Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Description: Small folios. (26 cm.) 210pp.; 222pp. ills. Photo-pictorial dust jackets. Full black cloth with gilt titles on spine and blind stamped titles on front boards. Both books Near Fine. John Updike, novelist of great reknown and numerous awards, nonetheless surprised quite a few people when he also proved to be a terrific art critic. His clever, yet casual approach to writing translated well to the issues of theme, culture and technique in the visual arts. "Just Looking" (1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), can be considered the bookends of his later years where he spent considerable time as an art critic for the New York Review of Books. Considered classics of art criticism, both books are generously illustrated, with most paintings reproduced in color. Perhaps most important and lasting, is Updike's constant belief in the power of art to change the mind and soul of man for the better. Additionally, both dust jackets were designed by artist and legendary book jacket designer, Chip Kidd.
Seller: The Beautiful American, Jersey City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's Complimentary Slip laid in. Inscribed by the author: "for Herb, Still a pal, Still book-buying, John [Updike]." Updike has added a little sketch of holly leaves and berries. Herb Yellin was the founder and publisher of Lord John Press and the most frequent of Updike's fine press collaborators. He named his press after noting that the list of authors he wanted to publish all shared the same first name, chief among them John Updike, his favorite. *Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu* became the press's first book in 1977 with 10 more to follow over the next 23 years. Yellin's friendship with Updike grew with each new limited edition benefitting his already enormous Updike collection, with Updike himself contributing copies of new editions of his books - often inscribed. In a 2010 interview with Yellin he noted that Updike ".liked that if anything ever happened to his own collection, he had my collection on the opposite side of the country." A notable association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking : Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by Updike on the front free endpaper, ?for Sherry Lord with admiration for her husband?s lovely paintings of American land and best wishes of the season - John Updike xmas 2005.?Also attached to the same page is a cut out piece of paper that Updike has written ?Property of John Updike,? on. No markings. Stated First Edition.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
Price: US$389.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Profusely illustrated. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY.
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