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Figuring Jasper Johns (Essays in Art and Culture)
Figuring Jasper Johns - Essays in Art and Culture Author:Fred Orton Few contemporary artists have made the problem of meaning for both artist and viewer as interesting and challenging as has Jasper Johns. Figuring Jasper Johns is a carefully and convincingly argued illumination of the ideas and selected works of this enigmatic American painter. Focusing on three of Johns's key paintings, Flag (1954-55), <... more »I>Painted Bronze (1960), and Untitled (1972), Fred Orton adroitly combines formal theoretical analyses and historical reflection. He opens up the painter's canvasses to fresh interpretation, with appropriate emphasis on the power of allegory in Jasper Johns's work.« less