Figuring Jasper Johns

by Fred Orton

Book Overview

The author begins this challenging monograph by probing Modernism's surfaces and subjects, its public and private meanings, in order to establish Johns's importance as the modern allegorical artist in the years after Abstract Expressionism. Yet, Figuring Jasper Johns is not an essay that presumes to offer an instant interpretation. Rather, Fred Orton self-consciously constructs a "Jasper Johns" whose work is introduced and explained in three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948462582
• ISBN13: 9780948462580
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"