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Jasper Johns - Weiss, Jeffrey; National Gallery of Art - Yale University Press
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Jan 15, 2007
296 p., 8 x 11 1/2
80 halftones + 170 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300121414
ISBN-10: 0300121415
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Cloth: $65.00
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- Art and Architecture
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Jasper JohnsAn Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
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Jeffrey Weiss; With John Elderfield, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Robert Morris, and Kathryn A. Tuma
     
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United States and Europe. This is the first publication to approach Johns’s work of this ten-year period through a thematic framework. It examines the artist's interest in the condition of painting as a medium, a practice, and an instrument of encoded meaning through several interrelated motifs: the target, the “device,” the naming of colors, and the imprint of the body.
In this handsome book, leading scholars, a conservator, and a contemporary artist consider Johns’s activity in this critical decade and discuss many of his iconic paintings, such as Target with Four Faces (1955), Diver (1962), Periscope (Hart Crane) (1963), and Arrive-Depart (1963). Their new critical and historical perspectives are grounded in an unusually close visual and material analysis of Johns's work.
Jeffrey Weiss is Curator and Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. John Elderfield is Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Carol Mancusi-Ungaro is Director of Conservation at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Morris is an American artist and contemporary of Johns. Kathryn Tuma is Assistant Professor of Modern Art at Johns Hopkins University.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington (January 28 – April 29, 2007) Kunstmuseum Basel (June 2 – September 9, 2007) OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
  
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