Jasper Johns's art unites mastery, mystery, simplicity, and contradiction. His methodical working process combines intense deliberation and experimentation, obsessive craft, cycles of revision and repetition, and decisive shifts of direction. Johns also frequently borrows images from other artists, which, ironically, only underscores the originality of his own vision. His work occupies a key position in the art of the second half of the twentieth century. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and ...
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Jasper Johns's art unites mastery, mystery, simplicity, and contradiction. His methodical working process combines intense deliberation and experimentation, obsessive craft, cycles of revision and repetition, and decisive shifts of direction. Johns also frequently borrows images from other artists, which, ironically, only underscores the originality of his own vision. His work occupies a key position in the art of the second half of the twentieth century. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and authoritative resource on it available, containing 264 color plates illustrating his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. Accompanying essays review his essential themes, analyze his references to other artists, and explore how his contemporaries have, in turn, seen and absorbed his own work. The plates are arranged to follow the stages of his career, allowing comparison of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from each period, as his style developed and changed. That comprehensive selection of reproductions is interwoven with an illustrated chronology tracing Johns' life and work with unprecedented accuracy and thoroughness. With its scholarly essays and extensive bibliography, Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the indispensable reference work on this crucial artist. This volume was originally published to accompany the major exhibition of Johns' work held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1996 and 1997, his first full retrospective in 20 years. It has been out of print since 2002.
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Acceptable in Good jacket. Art. Folio. First Edition (2006. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio with 408 pages. The book is in acceptable condition with some very slight tearing to the bottom left corner of some pages. Interior is clean and tight. DJ has some shelf wear, rubbing to edges. "The many Color and Black & White photos are superb, and it is accompanied by a solid chronology of Mr. Johns's life. Emphasis is on original works, but includes a good selection of more important lithographs.." Gray spine/White text.
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Used-Very Good. Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996, this study of Jasper Johns reproduces 240 of his works. It is arranged in sections to allow comparison of paintings, drawings and prints from each period of his career. The introduction reviews the essential themes that have informed Johns's career since the epoch-making Flag and Target paintings of the mid-1950s, while an essay surveys Johns's impact on the development of pop art, minimalism and conceptual art in the 1960s, and continuing through his pervasive impact on the imagination of artists today. Roberta Bernstein analyzes the variety of references in Johns's art to the work of his predecessors, from Leonardo and Grunewald to Cezanne. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! ! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
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VG/VG As New copy. Slate gray cloth, gray & pictorial dust jacket, 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.
