Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

by Kirk Varnedoe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870703927
• ISBN13: 9780870703928
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 5.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.2" x 12.3"