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Verbal Vermeer: Updike's Middle-Class Portraiture, James Plath
Verbal Vermeer: Updike's Middle-Class Portraiture, James Plath
James Plath
Of all the artists Updike mentions in his writing, none is cited more often than seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, whose near-photographic depictions of household scenes from everyday bourgeois life are recalled in Updike's own fictional portraits of upper-middle-dass domesticity-particularly those set in his native Pennsylvania, where the Dutch historically settled.
The Chicago Novel, Robert Bray
Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin
Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin
Dr. Jonna C Mackin
Though T.S. Eliot claimed to prize the working class ethos of Music Hall Comedy, he and his favorite artiste Marie Lloyt were key players in an essentially middle-class project of making sexual representation more explicit and more widely available but also more respectable as "art."