New in Paperback The work of Jasper Johns occupies a key position in the art of the second half of the 20th century. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and authoritative book on the artist to date, containing 264 color plates illustrating his work in all its facets--paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. Accompanying essays review Johns' essential themes; analyze his many methods of referring to predecessor artists; and explore how his art has been viewed by other artists. The plates are arranged in ...
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New in Paperback The work of Jasper Johns occupies a key position in the art of the second half of the 20th century. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and authoritative book on the artist to date, containing 264 color plates illustrating his work in all its facets--paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. Accompanying essays review Johns' essential themes; analyze his many methods of referring to predecessor artists; and explore how his art has been viewed by other artists. The plates are arranged in sections according to the stages of Johns' career, allowing comparison of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from each period of his art as it developed and changed. This comprehensive selection of reproductions is interwoven with an illustrated chronology tracing Johns' life and work with unprecedented accuracy and thoroughness. With its scholarly essays, chronology, and extensive bibliography, Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the indispensable reference work on this crucially important artist. This volume was originally published to accompany the major exhibition of Johns' work held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996-97.
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VG. May have owner's writing on first page. Gray & pictorial wraps, white lettering. 408 pp. 275 color illus., 207 BW illus., four gatefolds. Issued in conjunction with a 1996-1997 of artwork rendered by American painter and printmaker Jasper Johns (b. 1930). A nice copy of this important retrospective covering the years from 1930 to 1995. With two essays, fantastic illustrations, and an extensive chronology compiled by Lillian Tone. Contents as follows: Introduction: A sense of life / Kirk Varnedoe--"Seeing a thing can sometimes trigger the mind to make another thing" / Roberta Bernstein--Fire: Johns's work as seen and used by American artists / Kirk Varnedoe--Chronology and plates / compiled by Lilian Tone: 1930-1958; 1959-1960; 1961-1963; 1964-1971; 1972-1978; 1979-1981; 1982-1984; 1985-1989; 1990-1995--Notes to the chronology. Accompanying the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996-97, Jasper Johns: A Retrospective contains 264 color plates illustrating Johns's work in all its facets-paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. An introductory essay by Kirk Varnedoe, the exhibition's curator, looks back through the layers of memory in Johns's recent work to review the essential themes that have engaged the artist since his epoch-making Flag and Target paintings of the mid-1950s. In the book's second essay, Roberta Bernstein analyzes a crucial tactic in Johns's art: his many methods of referring to predecessor artists ranging from Leonardo and Grunewald to Cezanne, Duchamp, and Picasso. The illustrations for Bernstein's essay include a fourteen-page section reproducing the images she discusses-a striking visual demonstration of the variety of the art that Johns's work gathers together and transforms. Varnedoe then takes the opposite approach to Bernstein's, exploring how Johns's art has been interpreted by the artists of his and our own time: from the Pop, Minimal and Conceptual movements of the 1960s through to the new art of today, his work has proved rich enough to have a fundamentally influential impact on an extraordinarily diverse array of artists. The plates in Jasper Johns: A Retrospective are arranged in sections according to the stages of Johns's career, allowing comparison of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from each period of his art as it has developed and changed. This comprehensive selection of reproductions is interwoven with an illustrated chronology tracing Johns's life and work with unprecedented accuracy and thoroughness.
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Good. Book Paperback. Some minor wear to wrapper corners. Some minor staining to lower page edges, otherwise very good. [ Heavy-Please contact for overseas shipping quote ]
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Very good. An unread copy. Lower corner of the back cover has a small fold. No other flaws. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 408 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. 9x12. 408 page paperback exhibition catalog with many illustrations. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at MOMA Oct. 20, 1996 to Jan. 21, 1997. Essay by Roberta Bernstein. Selected bibliography at rear. No flaws-very good+ condition. The catalog is large and heavy, so mailing other than domestic standard might require extra charges.
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Near fine. With an essay by Roberta Bernstein. Profusely illustrated with 250 color plates and many black & white figures in the text. 408 pages. 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1996). Faint crease in spine, still a near fine copy of the first softcover edition.
