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60-1037: Getz is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Arthur Getz (1913–1996), American artist and illustrator Bernhard Getz (1850–1901), Norwegian judge, professor and politician Chris Getz (born 1983), American baseball player Eyvind Getz (1888–1956), Norwegian barrister and politician Gus Getz (1889–1969), American baseball player Ileen Getz (1961–2005), American actress James Lawrence Getz (1821–1891), American politician and newspaper founder Jane Getz (born 1942), American jazz pianist John Getz (born 1946), American actor Kerry Getz (born 1975), American skateboarder Morton H. Getz (died 1995), American politician Nicolai Getz (born 1991), Norwegian chess master Stan Getz (1927–1991), American jazz saxophonist Stella Getz (born 1977), Norwegian singer Stuart Getz (born 1953), American actor Yehuda Getz (1924–1995), Tunisian-born rabbi Fictional characters Nate Getz , from

120-497: A New Deal mural contract. Over the next four years, Getz won four mural contracts: After serving in the Philippines during World War II as a First Lieutenant of Field Artillery, Getz returned to New York City and resumed his work as an artist, soon becoming one of the more regular contributors to The New Yorker . During the 1950s and 1960s it was not unusual for more than one Getz cover to be printed on The New Yorker during

180-515: A Toyota dealership". Updike found it difficult to end the book, because he was "having so much fun" in the imaginary county Rabbit and his family inhabited. After writing Rabbit Is Rich , Updike published The Witches of Eastwick (1984), a playful novel about witches living in Rhode Island . He described it as an attempt to "make things right with my, what shall we call them, feminist detractors ". One of Updike's most popular novels, it

240-532: A "late masterpiece overlooked or praised by rote in its day, only to be rediscovered by another generation", while others, though appreciating the English mastery in the book, thought it overly dense with minute detail and swamped by its scenic depictions and spiritual malaise. In Villages (2004), Updike returned to the familiar territory of infidelities in New England . His 22nd novel, Terrorist (2006),

300-400: A Book (1970), Bech Is Back (1981) and Bech at Bay : A Quasi-Novel (1998). These stories were compiled as The Complete Henry Bech (2001) by Everyman's Library. Bech is a comical and self-conscious antithesis of Updike's own literary persona: Jewish, a World War II veteran, reclusive, and unprolific to a fault. In 1990, he published the last Rabbit novel, Rabbit at Rest , which won

360-431: A book you are predisposed to dislike, or committed by friendship to like. Do not imagine yourself a caretaker of any tradition, an enforcer of any party standards, a warrior in any ideological battle, a corrections officer of any kind. Never, never ... try to put the author "in his place," making of him a pawn in a contest with other reviewers. Review the book, not the reputation. Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong,

420-677: A computer program. Author and critic Martin Amis called it a "near-masterpiece". The novel S. (1989), uncharacteristically featuring a female protagonist, concluded Updike's reworking of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter . Updike enjoyed working in series; in addition to the Rabbit novels and the Maples stories, a recurrent Updike alter ego is the moderately well-known, unprolific Jewish novelist and eventual Nobel laureate Henry Bech , chronicled in three comic short-story cycles: Bech,

480-472: A dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books . His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run ; Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit Is Rich ; Rabbit at Rest ; and

540-470: A fine artist. Getz used his middle name, Kimmig, for his signature on his fine art work. Many paintings from this era are signed "Kimmig"; some Getz re-signed later and are signed both "Kimmig" and "Getz." In 1963 Getz and his first wife, Margarita Gibbons, were divorced. Getz later married writer Anne Carriere, and shortly after relocated from New York City to Sharon, Connecticut in 1969, where Getz lived until his death in 1996. His move to Connecticut marked

600-438: A full scholarship to Harvard College , where he was the roommate of Christopher Lasch during their first year. Updike had already received recognition for his writing as a teenager by winning a Scholastic Art & Writing Award , and at Harvard he soon became well known among his classmates as a talented and prolific contributor to The Harvard Lampoon , of which he was president. He studied with dramatist Robert Chapman ,

660-591: A group, seem really to be about the joy of painting itself." In addition to his work as an illustration artist, Getz continued to pursue fine art painting. In 1960 he was offered a one-man show at the Babcock Gallery in New York City. The gallery director requested that Getz, already well known for his covers, exhibit his fine art under a different name, concerned that Getz's association with "commercial" (illustration) art would hinder his recognition as

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720-642: A lauded novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made to Africa, found Updike working in new territory. In 1980, he published another novel featuring Harry Angstrom, Rabbit Is Rich , which won the National Book Award , the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction —all three major American literary prizes. The novel found " Rabbit the fat and happy owner of

780-405: A play ( Buchanan Dying , 1974), and a memoir ( Self-Consciousness , 1989). At the end of his life, Updike was working on a novel about St. Paul and early Christianity . Biographer Adam Begley wrote that Updike "transmuted the minutiae of his life" in prose, which enriched his readers at the cost of being "willing to sacrifice the happiness of people around him for his art". In 1953, while

840-514: A poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity". His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics", its "wit and precision", and for its depiction of topics familiar to American readers. British poet Gavin Ewart praised Updike for the metaphysical quality of his poetry and for his ability "to make the ordinary seem strange", and called him one of the few modern novelists capable of writing good poetry. Reading Endpoint aloud,

900-465: A shift in the mood of his New Yorker covers from the city-centered work of his past. He began to depict more rural scenes of the countryside, familiar to the growing commuter and weekender populations. During this time Getz also wrote and illustrated four children's books and illustrated numerous others, including Jennifer's Walk , authored by Anne Carriere (Getz and Carriere divorced in 1973). On August 29, 1988, Getz's 213th and final New Yorker cover

960-560: A significant achievement in terms of literary reputation and even sales; some of his positive reviews helped jump-start the careers of such younger writers as Erica Jong , Thomas Mallon and Jonathan Safran Foer . Bad reviews by Updike sometimes caused controversy, as when in late 2008 he gave a "damning" review of Toni Morrison 's novel A Mercy . Updike was praised for his literary criticism's conventional simplicity and profundity, for being an aestheticist critic who saw literature on its own terms, and for his longtime commitment to

1020-408: A single month. The writer John Updike , in his foreword to The Complete Book of Covers from The New Yorker, 1925 – 1989 , wrote: "The artist who has contributed most covers is Arthur Getz, whose alert eye and confident brush find endless silent dramas of contrast and tone in the world around us; beginning in 1938 and still producing, he has thus far published two hundred and thirteen." Lee Lorenz,

1080-429: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Getz&oldid=1257398544 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arthur Getz Arthur Getz

1140-425: A staunchly Pennsylvania boy." Similarly, Sylvie Mathé maintains that "Updike's most memorable legacy appears to be his homage to Pennsylvania." Critics emphasize his "inimitable prose style" and "rich description and language", often favorably compared to Proust and Nabokov . Some critics consider the fluency of his prose to be a fault, questioning the intellectual depth and thematic seriousness of his work given

1200-399: A student at Harvard, Updike married Mary Entwistle Pennington , an art student at Radcliffe College and daughter of a prominent Unitarian minister. She accompanied him to Oxford , England, where she attended art school and their first child, Elizabeth , was born in 1955. The couple had three more children together: David (born 1957), Michael (born 1959), and Miranda (born 1960). Updike

1260-481: A year on average. Updike populated his fiction with characters who "frequently experience personal turmoil and must respond to crises relating to religion, family obligations, and marital infidelity". His fiction is distinguished by its attention to the concerns, passions, and suffering of average Americans, its emphasis on Christian theology , and its preoccupation with sexuality and sensual detail. His work has attracted significant critical attention and praise, and he

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1320-420: Is Couples (1968), a novel about adultery in a small fictional Massachusetts town called Tarbox. It garnered Updike an appearance on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "The Adulterous Society". Both the magazine article and, to an extent, the novel struck a chord of national concern over whether American society was abandoning all social standards of conduct in sexual matters. The Coup (1978),

1380-637: Is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys of reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end. He reviewed "nearly every major writer of the 20th century and some 19th-century authors", typically in The New Yorker , always trying to make his reviews "animated". He also championed young writers, comparing them to his own literary heroes including Vladimir Nabokov and Marcel Proust . Good reviews from Updike were often seen as

1440-520: Is certainly one of the great American novelists of the 20th century. — Martin Amis Updike is considered one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation. He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with an immense and far-reaching influence on many writers. The excellence of his prose style is acknowledged even by critics skeptical of other aspects of Updike's work. Several scholars have called attention to

1500-423: Is widely considered one of the great American writers of his time. Updike's highly distinctive prose style features a rich, unusual, sometimes arcane vocabulary as conveyed through the eyes of "a wry, intelligent authorial voice that describes the physical world extravagantly while remaining squarely in the realist tradition". He described his style as an attempt "to give the mundane its beautiful due". Updike

1560-518: The Library of America issued a two-volume boxed edition of 186 stories under the title The Collected Stories . In 1971, Updike published a sequel to Rabbit, Run called Rabbit Redux , his response to the 1960s; Rabbit reflected much of Updike's resentment and hostility towards the social and political changes that beset the United States during that time. Updike's early Olinger period

1620-569: The experimental fiction of Seek My Face (2002). In the midst of these, he wrote what was for him a more conventional novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996), a historical saga spanning several generations and exploring themes of religion and cinema in America. It is considered the most successful novel of Updike's late career. Some critics have predicted that posterity may consider the novel

1680-464: The 20th. In the lecture he argued that American art, until the expressionist movement of the 20th century in which America declared its artistic "independence", is characterized by an insecurity not found in the artistic tradition of Europe . In Updike's own words: Two centuries after Jonathan Edwards sought a link with the divine in the beautiful clarity of things, William Carlos Williams wrote in introducing his long poem Paterson that "for

1740-475: The Mississippi of Faulkner's novels, the world of Updike's novels is fictional (as are such towns as Olinger and Brewer), while at the same time it is recognizable as a particular American region." Sanford Pinsker observes that "Updike always felt a bit out of place" in places like "Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he lived for most of his life. In his heart—and, more important, in his imagination—Updike remained

1800-689: The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Over 500 pages long, the novel is among Updike's most celebrated. In 2000, Updike included the novella Rabbit Remembered in his collection Licks of Love , drawing the Rabbit saga to a close. His Pulitzers for the last two Rabbit novels make Updike one of only four writers to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, the others being William Faulkner , Booth Tarkington , and Colson Whitehead . In 1995, Everyman's Library collected and canonized

1860-458: The critic Charles McGrath claimed that he found "another, deeper music" in Updike's poetry, finding that Updike's wordplay "smooths and elides itself" and has many subtle "sound effects". John Keenan, who praised the collection Endpoint as "beautiful and poignant", noted that his poetry's engagement with "the everyday world in a technically accomplished manner seems to count against him". Updike

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1920-553: The director of Harvard's Loeb Drama Center. He graduated summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . Upon graduation, Updike attended the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford with the ambition of becoming a cartoonist . After returning to the United States, Updike and his family moved to New York, where he became a regular contributor to The New Yorker . This

1980-406: The ebb and flow of Updike's first marriage; "Separating" (1974) and "Here Come the Maples" (1976) related to his divorce. These stories also reflect the role of alcohol in 1970s America. They were the basis for the television movie also called Too Far To Go , broadcast by NBC in 1979. Updike's short stories were collected in several volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf over five decades. In 2013,

2040-647: The fact that he had departed the magazine's employment after only two years. Updike's memoir indicates that he stayed in his "corner of New England to give its domestic news" with a focus on the American home from the point of view of a male writer. Updike's contract with the magazine gave it right of first offer for his short-story manuscripts, but William Shawn , The New Yorker 's editor from 1952 to 1987, rejected several as too explicit. The Maple short stories, collected in Too Far To Go (1979), reflected

2100-403: The former Art Editor of The New Yorker , wrote of Getz: "[He] seems to have found his particular subject, the special light of Manhattan … Arthur's paintings are a chronicle of New York's moods to be set alongside Guardi 's paintings of Venice." Lorenz also wrote of Getz, "He drew inspiration equally from the night clubs of Manhattan and the apple orchards of New England, but his covers, taken as

2160-433: The four novels as the omnibus Rabbit Angstrom ; Updike wrote an introduction in which he described Rabbit as "a ticket to the America all around me. What I saw through Rabbit's eyes was more worth telling than what I saw through my own, though the difference was often slight." Updike later called Rabbit "a brother to me, and a good friend. He opened me up as a writer." After the publication of Rabbit at Rest , Updike spent

2220-419: The importance of place, and especially of southeast Pennsylvania , in Updike's life and work. Bob Batchelor has described "Updike's Pennsylvania sensibility" as one with profound reaches that transcend time and place, such that in his writing, he used "Pennsylvania as a character" that went beyond geographic or political boundaries. SA Zylstra has compared Updike's Pennsylvania to Faulkner's Mississippi: "As with

2280-706: The influence of J. D. Salinger (" A&P "); John Cheever ("Snowing in Greenwich Village"); and the Modernists Marcel Proust , Henry Green , James Joyce , and Vladimir Nabokov . During this time, Updike underwent a profound spiritual crisis. Suffering from a loss of religious faith, he began reading Søren Kierkegaard and the theologian Karl Barth . Both deeply influenced his own religious beliefs, which in turn figured prominently in his fiction. He believed in Christianity for

2340-578: The latter won the National Book Award . Rabbit, Run featured Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom , a former high school basketball star and middle-class paragon who would become Updike's most enduring and critically acclaimed character. Updike wrote three additional novels about him. Rabbit, Run was featured in Time ' s All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. Updike's career and reputation were nurtured and expanded by his long association with The New Yorker , which published him frequently throughout his career, despite

2400-475: The novella Rabbit Remembered ), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize . Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", critics recognized his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output – a book

2460-454: The poet there are no ideas but in things." No ideas but in things. The American artist, first born into a continent without museums and art schools, took Nature as his only instructor, and things as his principal study. A bias toward the empirical, toward the evidential object in the numinous fullness of its being, leads to a certain lininess, as the artist intently maps the visible in a New World that feels surrounded by chaos and emptiness. He

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2520-400: The polish of his language and the perceived lightness of his themes, while others criticized Updike for misogynistic depictions of women and sexual relationships. Other critics argue that Updike's "dense vocabulary and syntax functions as a distancing technique to mediate the intellectual and emotional involvement of the reader". On the whole, however, Updike is extremely well regarded as

2580-475: The practice of literary criticism. Much of Updike's art criticism appeared in The New York Review of Books , where he often wrote about American art . His art criticism involved an aestheticism like that of his literary criticism. Updike's 2008 Jefferson Lecture , "The Clarity of Things: What's American About American Art?", dealt with the uniqueness of American art from the 18th century to

2640-469: The remainder of his life. Updike said, "As to critics, it seems to be my fate to disappoint my theological friends by not being Christian enough, while I'm too Christian for Harold Bloom 's blessing. So be it." Later, Updike and his family relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts . Many commentators, including a columnist in the local Ipswich Chronicle , asserted that the fictional town of Tarbox in Couples

2700-525: The rest of the 1990s and early 2000s publishing novels in a wide range of genres; the work of this period was frequently experimental in nature. These styles included the historical fiction of Memories of the Ford Administration (1992), the magical realism of Brazil (1994), the science fiction of Toward the End of Time (1997), the postmodernism of Gertrude and Claudius (2000), and

2760-460: The story of a fervent young extremist Muslim in New Jersey , garnered media attention but little critical praise. In 2003, Updike published The Early Stories , a large collection of his short fiction spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. More than 800 pages long, with over one hundred stories, it has been called "a richly episodic and lyrical Bildungsroman ... in which Updike traces

2820-554: The television series NCIS: Los Angeles Getz (Breaking Bad) See also [ edit ] Georgi Georgiev-Getz (1926–1996), Bulgarian actor Hyundai Getz , a supermini car produced by the Hyundai Motor Company Mount Getz , a mountain in Antarctica [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Getz . If an internal link intending to refer to

2880-571: The trajectory from adolescence, college, married life , fatherhood, separation and divorce". It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2004. This lengthy volume nevertheless excluded several stories found in his short-story collections of the same period. Updike worked in a wide array of genres, including fiction, poetry (most of it compiled in Collected Poems: 1953–1993 , 1993), essays (collected in nine separate volumes),

2940-569: The writer's equipment, the typewriter eraser, the boxes of clean paper. And I remember the brown envelopes that stories would go off in—and come back in." These early years in Berks County, Pennsylvania , would influence the environment of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy , as well as many of his early novels and short stories. Updike graduated from Shillington High School as co- valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received

3000-496: Was adapted as a film and included on Harold Bloom 's list of canonical 20th-century literature (in The Western Canon ). In 2008 Updike published The Widows of Eastwick , a return to the witches in their old age. It was his last published novel. In 1986, he published the unconventional Roger's Version , the second volume of the so-called Scarlet Letter trilogy, about an attempt to prove God's existence using

3060-424: Was also a critic of literature and art , one frequently cited as one of the best American critics of his generation. In the introduction to Picked-Up Pieces, his 1975 collection of prose, he listed his personal rules for literary criticism: To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser. Do not accept for review

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3120-483: Was based on Ipswich. Updike denied the suggestion in a letter to the paper. Impressions of Updike's day-to-day life in Ipswich during the 1960s and 1970s are included in a letter to the same paper published soon after Updike's death and written by a friend and contemporary. In Ipswich, Updike wrote Rabbit, Run (1960), on a Guggenheim Fellowship , and The Centaur (1963), two of his most acclaimed and famous works;

3180-490: Was born in Reading, Pennsylvania , the only child of Linda Grace (née Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike , and was raised at his childhood home in the nearby small town of Shillington . The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville . His mother's attempts to become a published writer impressed the young Updike. "One of my earliest memories", he later recalled, "is of seeing her at her desk ... I admired

3240-584: Was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Madeline Kimmig Getz and Anthony Getz. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, on a full scholarship, and graduated with honors in 1934 from Pratt's School of Fine and Applied Art. His very first cover illustration for The New Yorker was printed on July 23, 1938. In 1939, Philip Guston taught Getz how to mix casein tempera, a milk-based pigment utilized for mural painting, and suggested that Getz apply for

3300-540: Was printed. Though a stroke rendered Getz blind in one eye in 1994, he continued to paint and draw until his death on January 19, 1996, at the age of 83. John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic , and literary critic . One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington , William Faulkner , and Colson Whitehead ), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than

3360-465: Was recollected in Knopf's Collected Poems (1993). He wrote that "I began as a writer of light verse , and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form." The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as

3420-533: Was serially unfaithful, and eventually left the marriage in 1974 for Martha Ruggles Bernhard . In 1977, Updike and Bernhard married. In 1982, his first wife married an MIT academic. Updike and Bernhard lived for more than 30 years in Beverly Farms , Massachusetts. Updike had three stepsons through Bernhard. He died of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts , on January 27, 2009, at age 76. He

3480-603: Was set in the Pennsylvania of his youth; it ended around 1965 with the lyrical Of the Farm . After his early novels, Updike became most famous for his chronicling infidelity, adultery, and marital unrest, especially in suburban America; and for his controversial depiction of the confusion and freedom inherent in this breakdown of social mores. He once wrote that it was "a subject which, if I have not exhausted, has exhausted me". The most prominent of Updike's novels of this vein

3540-415: Was survived by his wife, his four children, three stepsons, his first wife, and seven grandchildren and seven step-grandchildren. Updike published eight volumes of poetry over his career, including his first book The Carpentered Hen (1958), and one of his last, the posthumous Endpoint (2009). The New Yorker published excerpts of Endpoint in its March 16, 2009 issue. Much of Updike's poetical output

3600-535: Was the beginning of his professional writing career. Updike stayed at The New Yorker as a full staff writer for only two years, writing "Talk of the Town" columns and submitting poetry and short stories to the magazine. In New York, Updike wrote the poems and stories that came to fill his early books like The Carpentered Hen (1958) and The Same Door (1959). These works were influenced by Updike's early engagement with The New Yorker . This early work also featured

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