Jasper Johns' preoccupation.(Column)

From: The American Poetry Review | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Yau, John | Copyright information

This is the first part of an essay on Jasper Johns. The second part will be published in a forthcoming issue of the American Poetry Review. In the first part, I focus on work that the artist made between 1960 and 1963, as well as make connections between what he did before and after these three years. In the second part of this essay, I will largely focus on works he did between 1982 and 1988, as well as on the "catenary" paintings (1997-2003), which are his most recently exhibited...

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