What is “American Art”? Thin-Lipped Gravitas
In an essay by John Updike, in The New York Review of Books titled “The Clarity of Things” (Vol. 55, No. 11, June 26, 2008), he asks what is American in American art? He quotes a 1958 essay by Lloyd Goodrich who wrote: One of the most American traits is our urge to define what […]
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