Figuring Jasper Johns

by Fred Orton

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.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Anthony]

writes towards a deconstruction of the binary of subject and surface in postmodern painting, and on the play of metonymy in johns's work, with a lengthy discussion of "flag" of '54. recommended.