Figuring Jasper Johns - Softcover

Orton, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674301188 ISBN 13: 9780674301184

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The matter of meaning, for painter and viewer alike, is crucial to this book, a deeply felt and richly considered attempt to come to terms with one of the most challenging artists of our day. An illuminating look at an enigmatic painter, Figuring Jasper Johns also provides a way of approaching American art of the 1950s and 1960s.

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Orton is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Leeds.

Review:

Fred Orton writes on Jasper Johns with clarity as well as conviction...If Orton engages you with the play of words and concepts, he is equally adept at drawing you close into Johns' paintings...With equal authority, Orton analyzes the critical distinction, as articulated by Johns himself, between the actual and the figured. (Richard Shiff ArtForum)

A significant contribution to the large body of literature about one of the more provocative and enigmatic artists of the mid- and late-twentieth century. (Michael J. Prokopow Boston Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674301188
• ISBN 13: 9780674301184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208