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This new edition presents a completely revised, expanded and updated version of a modern classic. Jasper Johns's recent pieces, with their puns, optical illusions and embedded images have attracted considerable critical attention. Crichton, who knows Johns and has collected his work for over 20 years, here offers intimate glimpses of the artist's potent and seemingly contradictory aspects. Accompanying the text is a whole portfolio of illustrations, providing an overview of his work as painter, sculptor and printmaker. Over 200 works are reproduced, including colour and foldout reproductions.
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Johns can easily lay claim to the title of greatest living American artist, and polymath novelist/doctor Crichton here provides an indispensable overview of his career. Crichton has substantially expanded and revised his 1977 monograph on Johns to cover his latest work. Drawing on interviews with the often laconic artist as well as commentary from art historians, dealers, and friends, Crichton sketches Johns's creative processes and the development of his style. This accessible portrait of the artist's work is both insightful and enlightening, furnishing context for Johns's place in contemporary art. The extensive color and duotone photographs provide a nearly complete summation of Johns's career from the early 1950s through the present. Highly recommended for all art collections and larger public libraries.
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C.
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London : Thames and Hudson, 1994
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Condition: Sehr gut. Revised and expanded edition. 296 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - This extraordinary art book presents two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/bestselling novelist Michael Crichton. Since Jasper Johns' paintings became well known in the 1950s much has been written about his career, his special subject matter, and his place in the contemporary art world. But in this, Crichton's first book on art and a volume that accompanied an inter-national traveling exhibition of Johns' work, the author brings his special gifts to bear, particularly his analytical skills and superlative abilities as narrator and storyteller. Here, Crichton-himself a collector of contemporary art-offers a dazzling succession of intimate glimpses of Johns' potent and seemingly contradictory aspects, many of them highlighted by quotations from interviews with the artist, his dealers, and distinguished contemporary critics. He also conducts a thorough review of Johns' work, and he proffers an intriguing investigation of the nature of the artistic response itself. Illuminating Crichton's text are 149 black-and-white illustrations, not only of Johns' work but of that of numerous other painters and sculptors-from the prehistoric artists of the Altamira caves to Marcel Duchamp-that further expand the author's observations. Then comes the glory of this book, a spectacular display of 172 works by Jasper Johns-paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings, ranging back to his earliest pieces, of 1953. Of these, more than 60 are reproduced in color, including six magnificent foldout pages that permit the reader to more fully visualize the scope and vitality of the artist's creations. ISBN 9780500092408 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 933988
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JASPER JOHNS ** Signed By Michael Crichton and Jasper Johns **
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jasper Johns (illustrator). First Edition Thus, First Printing. ***** This is the first printing of the Revised and Expanded edition. ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Michael Crichton) on the title page, and by the artist (Jasper Johns) on the second page. The author and artist did not inscribe this book to anyone; it is just signed by them. ***** Very nice hardcover with dust jacket. 417 illustrations (including 103 in color, with six fold-outs). There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. ***** CONDITION: Both the book and dust jacket are in very nice NEAR FINE condition. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 2193