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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

By (author) Roberta Bernstein
By (author) Edith Devaney
By (author) Hiroko Ikegami
By (author) Morgan Meis
By (author) Robert Storr

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  • A study of one of America's greatest contemporary artists illustrated with his paintings, sculptures, drawings and collages, and with texts written by leading academic experts, published to accompany his retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • Includes Johns's most iconic works, sculptures, works on paper and collages
Full Description
Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract Expressionists. Johns’s striking use of popular iconography, such as flags, numbers and maps, rendered with a distinctive textural, painterly surface, made a colossal impact. In this handsomely illustrated study, skilled writers examine Johns’s pioneering oeuvre and offer a detailed overview of the career and international significance of this subtlest of craftsmen. This book accompanies the exhibition ‘Jasper Johns’, 23 September-10 December 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London
About the Author
Roberta Bernstein is a professor at the University at Albany, New York (SUNY), and author of the catalogue raisonné of Jasper Johns's paintings and sculptures. Edith Devaney is curator of contemporary projects at the Royal Academy of Arts, where she was co-curator of 'Abstract Expressionism' (2016). Hiroko Ikegami is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University and author of The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art (2010). Morgan Meis is an essayist and critic who writes about art and culture for many newspapers and magazines, among them Harper's, n+1, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. Robert Storr was an influential curator at MoMA, New York, for over a decade. More recently Dean of Yale University School of Art, he has written on such major post-war artists as Guston, Richter, Close, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt and Bourgeois, among many others. Image: Jasper Johns Flag on Orange Field II, 1958 Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland © Jasper Johns / VAGA, New York / DACS, London Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com
Specifications
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN
9781910350683
Published
18th Sep 2017
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
300 mm x 280 mm
Pages
240 Pages
Illustrations
200 color
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