Jasper Johns /

"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 othe...

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Other Authors: Bernstein, Roberta (Curator, Editor), Devaney, Edith (Curator), Testar, Anna (Curator), Heyler, Joanne (Curator), Schad, Ed (Curator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, England ; Los Angeles, California : Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Broad, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Christopher Le Brun and Joanne Heyler
  • Acknowledgements
  • 'Something resembling truth' / Robert Bernstein and Edith Devaney
  • Bewitched, bothered and bewildered / Robert Storr
  • Is the painting counting? / Morgan Meis
  • Looking deeper : Jasper Johns in an international context of the 1960s / Hiroko Ikegami
  • Catalogue plates. 'Something resembling truth'
  • 'Things the mind already knows'
  • Painting as object
  • Words and voices
  • In the studio
  • Time and transience
  • Fragments and faces
  • Seasons and cycles
  • Memory tracings
  • Chronology / Roberta Bernstein.