{"id":775,"date":"2011-02-27T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=775"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:32:40","slug":"more-more-just-looking-updike-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/02\/27\/more-more-just-looking-updike-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;More Just Looking&#8221;: Updike as Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/02\/updike2502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/02\/updike2502-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Member Andrew Moorhouse writes that for his 50th birthday he decided to treat himself and commissioned an artist friend to do a painting of John Updike.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars and avid readers will recognize the image from a Frank Capri photo that adorned the cover of James O. Yerkes&#8217; critical anthology on <em>John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace<\/em> (1999). But, of course, the artist took the image into the realm of expressionism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third such painting we know of, and seems somehow fitting and full-circle, given how Updike was inspired by art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member Andrew Moorhouse writes that for his 50th birthday he decided to treat himself and commissioned an artist friend to do a painting of John Updike. Scholars and avid readers will recognize the image from a Frank Capri photo that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/02\/27\/more-more-just-looking-updike-as-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}