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Figuring Jasper Johns

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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. Fred Orton's reading of John's oeuvre focuses on three key works - Untitled (1972), Flag (1954-55), and Painted Bronze (1960). Adroitly combining formal theoretical analyses and historical reflection, Orton explores each painting until the distinction between picture and context dissolves and his subject appears in a wholly new frame. Here we see how Johns's work makes use of the modernist opposition between surface and subject, how it manifests both relatively private and relatively public meanings, and how it develops a self-consciously figurative visual language. With reference to ideas in contemporary critical theory, Orton considers Johns's work as allegory and assesses the value and effect of doing so. A practical demonstration of how theory can work to generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones (some of them the product of Johns's own mythologizing), this book offers the clearest and most penetrating picture yet of Jasper Johns and in the process contributes considerably to the continuing rethinking of art history.

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A significant contribution to the large body of literature about one of the more provocative and enigmatic artists of the mid- and late-twentieth century.--Michael J. Prokopow "Boston Book Review " Fred Orton writes on Jasper Johns with clarity as well as conviction...If Orton engages you with the play of words and concepts, he is equally adept at drawing you close into Johns' paintings...With equal authority, Orton analyzes the critical distinction, as articulated by Johns himself, between the actual and the figured.--Richard Shiff "ArtForum "


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674301177
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Height: 248 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 748 gr
  • ISBN-10: 067430117X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 165 mm


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