{"id":5976,"date":"2023-03-02T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2023-03-02T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:24:18","slug":"did-updike-fans-like-alex-katzs-portrait-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/03\/02\/did-updike-fans-like-alex-katzs-portrait-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Updike fans like Alex Katz’s portrait on the cover of Time magazine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not according to a Time<\/em> magazine story celebrating “A Century of Impact: See How TIME’s Cover Evolved Over 100 Years.” <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Updike, as painted by Katz, appeared on the cover of Time<\/em> after he had won the Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Is Rich<\/em>. “Speaking of Katz\u2014the Oct. 18, 1982, cover of novelist John Updike also created an interesting pairing. Painter Alex Katz<\/a>, whose work generally flattened the subject\u2019s perspective and reduced the features, was commissioned to paint Updike, whose fans were not all pleased with the result: \u201cWhat a washed-out portrait of Updike on the cover!\u201d one reader complained. But Katz offered some advice to viewers of art: \u201cYou can wreck a painting very easily,\u201d he noted, \u201cif you get obsessive about likeness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updike had previously appeared on the April 26, 1968 Time<\/em> magazine after Couples<\/em> was published and drew attention to the “post-pill paradise” of suburban America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not according to a Time magazine story celebrating “A Century of Impact: See How TIME’s Cover Evolved Over 100 Years.” Updike, as painted by Katz, appeared on the cover of Time after he had won the Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit … Continue reading →<\/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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","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=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}