Jasper Johns
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Jasper Johns Details
Review ...the enormous new catalogue raisonee of Jasper Johns, a five-volume monument to the most inscrutable figure in modern American art. (Jason Farago New York Review of Books)The formidable catalog for the formidable exhibition... (Peter Plagens Wall Street Journal)His work speaks to the sense that truth is never certain or static, especially for things like nationhood.... Johns introduces these complicated ideas in a self-assured yet vernacular style unmatched by any of the American avant-gardists working in the latter half of the 20th century. (Matthew Holman Apollo Magazine)Johns’s enigmatic and epigrammatic work irradiated self-belief, and announced, in clarion terms, that the dominance of abstraction was over, kaput, defunct. He had discovered a clever way of reintroducing reality into the realm of fine art. (Alastair Sooke The Telegraph) Read more
Reviews
This is a beautifully illustrated and informative art book. I have seen many Johns paintings in museums and was curious about him. This book does an excellent job of depicting his major works and putting them into a context.
