Writing for Signature: Making well-read sense of the world, Tobias Carroll comes up with a list of “Literary Takes on the Visual: 10 Novelists on Fine Art.”
Of Updike, he writes:
“When John Updike’s name is mentioned, most readers initially think of him as a novelist, and it’s certainly through fiction that he established his reputation as a writer. But Updike also wrote an abundance of art criticism: the posthumous Always Looking is his third such collection of work, following 1989’s Just Looking and 2005’s Still Looking. Delving into this side of Updike’s writing shows an entirely different side to him than you might experience if you’re only familiar with his fiction.”
Below are Amazon links to the three Updike volumes on art, with the posthumously published third volume edited by Christopher Carduff:
Just Looking: Essays on Art (2000)