Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965

by Jeffrey Weiss

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United States and Europe. This is the first publication to approach Johns's work of this ten-year period through a thematic framework. It examines the artist's interest in the condition of painting as a medium, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300121415
• ISBN13: 9780300121414
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 11.7"