Jasper johns pictures within pictures

          This book offers the first comprehensive study of his art since , a period in which the artist has made some of his most moving and challenging work....

          A substantial new monograph on one of America's most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early s to the present.

        1. A substantial new monograph on one of America's most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early s to the present.
        2. A substantial new monograph on one of America's most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early s to the present.
        3. This book offers the first comprehensive study of his art since , a period in which the artist has made some of his most moving and challenging work.
        4. Thames & Hudson Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures ; Edition, English ; Book Format, Hardcover ; Number of Pages, ; Dimensions.
        5. A substantial new monograph on one of America?s most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early s to the present In the late s.

          6. Jasper Johns Pictures within Pictures, 1980-2015

          Fiona Donovan

          A substantial new monograph on one of America’s most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early 1980s to the present

          In the late 1970s, after the artist’s explosive Pop Art beginnings and a period of abstraction, representational objects made their way back into Jasper Johns’ work.

          Supported by the artist’s words and previous scholarship, Jasper Johns is the first comprehensive study of his later paintings and works on paper.

          Fiona Donovan helps contextualize images that have personal significance for Johns and explain a broader humanist discourse.

          Readers learn of his absorption with the appropriation and abstraction of images taken from Cézanne, Grünewald, Picasso, and others, and discover the inspiration Johns finds in his immediate surroundings. Progressing through several key phases and turning points in the artist’s career, Donovan brings to light not only this subtext of inspirations and