{"id":4835,"date":"2019-07-21T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2019-07-21T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T13:11:20","slug":"blogger-considers-updike-on-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/21\/blogger-considers-updike-on-van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger considers Updike on Van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/VincentvanGogh2C22HarvestinProvence2228188829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4836\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/VincentvanGogh2C22HarvestinProvence2228188829-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/VincentvanGogh2C22HarvestinProvence2228188829-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/VincentvanGogh2C22HarvestinProvence2228188829-366x300.jpg 366w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/VincentvanGogh2C22HarvestinProvence2228188829.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>John MacDougall<\/strong> posted a May 1 2019 entry on his blog, <em>The New Yorker and Me<\/em>, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewyorkerandme.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/updike-on-van-gogh.html\">&#8220;Updike on Van Gogh,&#8221;<\/a> in which he draws attention to &#8220;Updke&#8217;s great posthumous essay collection <em>Higher Gossip<\/em>&#8221; and considers what he considers to be the two best pieces: &#8220;Uncertain Skills, Determined Spirit&#8221; and &#8220;The Purest of Styles.&#8221; Both deal with van Gogh, MacDougall&#8217;s &#8220;favorite painter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MacDougall quotes from both essays, in particular paying notice to his favorite passage in &#8220;Uncertain Skills&#8221; that &#8220;contrasts van Gogh&#8217;s two pen copies of his superb <em>Harvest in Provence<\/em>.&#8221; Of Updike&#8217;s assessment that &#8220;The drawings brim with latent color&#8221; he writes, &#8220;That last line is inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John MacDougall posted a May 1 2019 entry on his blog, The New Yorker and Me, titled &#8220;Updike on Van Gogh,&#8221; in which he draws attention to &#8220;Updke&#8217;s great posthumous essay collection Higher Gossip&#8221; and considers what he considers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/21\/blogger-considers-updike-on-van-gogh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-online","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}