String fellow: he made art history with his flags and targets, at home in Connecticut, Jasper Johns talks about his latest paintings--with string as a central motif--and about the old days with Rauschenberg and Castelli.(Jasper Johns art exhibition)

From: W | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Belcove, Julie L. | Copyright information

Jasper Johns is standing over a long worktable in the studio on his rural Connecticut estate, his longtime assistant by his side. Two prints, seemingly identical, are laid out for him. On closer inspection, one has a splotch of purple where the other doesn't. Johns's full-time printmaker, who toils in a studio on the other side of the renovated barn, wants his boss to choose. Johns, whose every brushstroke has been pondered, analyzed and debated by critics, art historians and grad ...

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