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Johns Jasper
Jasper Johns: The Business of the Eye (Taschen Basic Art Series)
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Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using wax-based paint, plaster relief, collage, and even commonplace objects such as brooms and rulers in his paintings, Johns achieves a sculptural texture in his work. He is arguably most known for his flag paintings of the 1950s (the Museum of Modern Art in New York recently paid over $20 million for White Flag), though other themes, including targets, numbers, letters, and maps, are also famously recurrent. Johns is widely considered one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.
Available in over 20 languages, Taschen's Basic Art series offers budget-minded readers quality books on the greatest artists of all time. The neat, slick format and nice price tag make Basic Art books perfect for collecting.
Every book in the Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
a concise biography
Customer Reviews
Good overview, good value
Like the other Taschen Basic Art series books I've seen, this provides a good introduction to Johns's work, covering his career through the present day. At only 96 pages, including a large number of color reproductions of his works, it is a quick read, but it also is far from comprehensive, of course.
For the price and quality, it offers a very good value to the layman seeking to learn more about the artist's work.
2008-03-29
| x (CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4
Jasper Johns: Gray (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Jasper Johns (b. 1930), one of today's most acclaimed and influential artists, is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-colour experimentations have figured prominently in his productions since 1955, and within that significant subset of his work, the majority of monochromes are grey. In fact, every one of his iconic, serialized forms has been articulated in grey. This elegant book, spanning Johns' full career, examines this singular preoccupation, presenting a revolutionary new understanding of and appreciation for the artist as an accomplished tonalist. Johns' greys traverse an infinitely expressive spectrum of differentiated hues and values evident in the new photography expressly commissioned for this catalogue. The volume features paintings, sculptures, drawings, lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, and aquatints created in a wide array of grey media: oil and acrylic paint, encaustic, collage, Sculp-metal, aluminum, lead, silver, graphite, pastel, watercolour, and ink. This book also features recent works published here for the first time. Anchoring this essential publication are compelling essays that enrich our perspective on this prolific artist's entire oeuvre.
Customer Reviews
Frans Hals had black; Jasper Johns has gray.
I hesitated before ordering this book. I already own 5 books about Jasper Johns and was thinking to myself that owning one more would not add much to my appreciation of this great artist. I was wrong. This book, the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Chicago Art Institute in 2007, is full of marvelous illustrations (of some recent works like the Catenary series) and brilliant essays on the importance of this most difficult of colors, gray, in the work of Johns. The quality of the illustrations is such that they enable the reader to see all the nuances of the artist's palette as if we were standing in front of the paintings (or drawings, or prints, as a matter of fact). In this respect, all the photographs were taken by the same photographer using one type of material only so as to show the works in the same light and shade. Johns's gray is like Hals's black: he has hundreds of different grays and the book reveals this perfectly.
Highly recommended.
2008-05-09
(Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5
A muct have for contemporary artists
I have found this book most helpful. The articles written by the various contributors is worth the price alone. The illustrations are satisfactory as most of these works are about texture.This book will be a friend for a long time.
2008-02-23
| Maureen (canada) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
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Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United States and Europe. This is the first publication to approach Johns’s work of this ten-year period through a thematic framework. It examines the artist's interest in the condition of painting as a medium, a practice, and an instrument of encoded meaning through several interrelated motifs: the target, the “device,” the naming of colors, and the imprint of the body.
In this handsome book, leading scholars, a conservator, and a contemporary artist consider Johns’s activity in this critical decade and discuss many of his iconic paintings, such as Target with Four Faces (1955), Diver (1962), Periscope (Hart Crane) (1963), and Arrive-Depart (1963). Their new critical and historical perspectives are grounded in an unusually close visual and material analysis of Johns's work.
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good overview of Johns's early oeuvre
Jasper Johns (born 1930)is an important American painter who is variously said to belong to the Minimalist, Pop Art or Neo-Dadaist schools. This catalogue presents paintings from the first decade of his creative output. Although Johns presently continues to paint, his output is minimal and his works attract very high prices. One painting has sold for $80 million, making it supposedly the most valuable art work by a living painter.
I bought this book in an attempt to expand my horizons; my interests generally lie in art and music "from the olden days" (as my children like to say). The many color illustrations of Johns's earlier works are very well reproduced and the printing quality of the book is a pleasure in itself. I must admit that the paintings-targets, letters, numbers, hand paintings and such like- are interesting to examine but ultimately fail to move or excite me. But I am pleased to have this book. I am sure there is more to Johns than meets my eyes and he certainly has more substance and intelligence that many other modern artists. The fact that he possesses and admires Cezanne's paintings is an additional feather in his cap.
I found the articles often riddled with obscure artspeak; trying to make head or tail of the writing required great concentration. Why is writing about modern art so frequently prolix and complicated? Sometimes I just gave up and looked at the pictures!
2010-01-21
(Sydney Australia) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
beautiful reproductions
This is a wonderful book to add to any art library. Although I have yet to read all the bio, the parts I have begun are nicely written. There is even some photo reference to how he created these works, pinned to the wall.
2007-12-17
| digitaleonardo (Atlanta, Georgia United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Top-quality illustrations
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery in Washington (and later at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland) and concentrating on the pivotal decade 1955-1965 when Johns produced his most famous works, this catalogue is worth it mainly because of the quality of the illustrations. So much has been written on Johns's art that it is sometimes refreshing to be able to pause in front of his works and just enjoy them for their pure pictorial quality (color, texture...). This book enables you to do just that. Then if you want to read the text, you will find it well written, clever (especially at the end of the book, where paintings are analysed and interpreted one by one and in detail), sometimes a bit far-fetched, but just like everything else I know which has dealt with Johns's art (see Chrichton, Varnedoe,etc...).
2007-04-07
(Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
An equisite, full-color, thoughtful read . . . but
This book is gorgeous in its color, close-ups, and perspectives on Mr. Johns, but perhaps "Mr. Johns's temper" would flair when he realizes throughout the book he'd find "Mr. Johns' temper." Perhaps a global spell-check changed everything reflecting Mr. Johns's last name, but gee-wiz what a horrible annoyance. I was stunned this would happen through the auspices of the National Gallery in Washington. Perhaps President Bush had a night job editing this text while reading his 60 books a year?
2007-04-02
(Belfast, ME USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4
Targets, Flags, and More
An excellent and broad-spectrum catalog of an exhibit based on a seminal decade, 1955-1965, in Jasper Johns' career. Writers analyze diverse aspects of these early years of Johns' career that established him as one of the great figures in modern art and stimulated much in art created by others. I especially enjoyed the essays by artist and critic Robert Morris and conservation expert Carol Mancusi-Ungaro. Excellent reproductions of the works shown in the exhibit.
2007-03-18
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
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Jasper Johnsís art unites mastery, mystery, simplicity, and contradiction. His methodical working process combines intense deliberation and experimentation, obsessive craft, cycles of revision and repetition, and decisive shifts of direction. Johns also frequently borrows images from other artists, which, ironically, only underscores the originality of his own vision. His work occupies a key position in the art of the second half of the twentieth century. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the most complete and authoritative resource on it available, containing 264 color plates illustrating his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. Accompanying essays review his essential themes, analyze his references to other artists, and explore how his contemporaries have, in turn, seen and absorbed his own work. The plates are arranged to follow the stages of his career, allowing comparison of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from each period, as his style developed and changed. That comprehensive selection of reproductions is interwoven with an illustrated chronology tracing Johns' life and work with unprecedented accuracy and thoroughness. With its scholarly essays and extensive bibliography, Jasper Johns: A Retrospective is the indispensable reference work on this crucial artist. This volume was originally published to accompany the major exhibition of Johns' work held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1996 and 1997, his first full retrospective in 20 years. It has been out of print since 2002.
In any survey of the art of the second half of this century, Jasper Johns is a central figure. This comprehensive book is the most authoritative and complete book to date on this important North American artist. This lavish volume contains 483 illustrations, including 261 in full color and four foldouts. Johns's entire oeuvre is arranged in sections corresponding to each era of his career in all media--paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. With its scholarly essays, beautiful color plate reproductions, and extensive bibliography and chronology, this book is sure to become the definitive resource on Jasper Johns.
Customer Reviews
jasper johns
here is a fabulous book on the american painter Jasper Johns.
As usual, the museum of modern art offers us a big book (more than 400 pages), with beautiful pictures of his work and a great look at his artistic evolution.
So, if there's a book about Jasper Johns to buy, this is the good one!
very complete and great page setting.
2008-05-19
(france) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5
A magnificent retrospective of this great artist's life work
Did you miss the Johns retrospective at NY MOMA? This book captures the essence of an American Michaelangelo. Subjective? You bet! If you have even the slightest interest in modern art your library is not complete without this retrospective. The many color and b&w photographs are superb, and it is accompanied by a solid chronology of Mr. Johns's life. Emphasis is on original works, but includes a good selection of more important lithographs (I recommend the prints Catalog Raisonne by ULAE if you want a complete reference work in this area). A tour de force by Varnedoe and his editing team!
1997-12-16
(San Ramon, CA) | Helpful Votes: 28 | Rating: 5
Jasper Johns
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Pairing the talents of a leading American artist and the author of Jurassic Park, a collection of intellectual works featuring the artist's use of puns, optical illusion, and embedded images is accompanied by analytical text.
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Into the heart of creation
I own six books on Jasper Johns (monographies, catalogues of exhibitions) and this one is undoutedly the best. The illustrations are numerous and of a good quality, however this is not your coffee-table type of book: you do want to read the text, which, through numerous interviews and essays, manages to give the best analysis available on the master's art. Especially interesting are the dialogues between Chrichton (himself a collector of Johns's works) and the artist. This is a book that often provides unique insight into the artist's creative process; Chrichton opens many doors and it is up to the reader/art lover to step in and discover Johns's mysterious world.
2008-12-21
(Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Good
Novelists have always loved artists, and artists have always loved novelists. They love and admire the other's talent, but--most important--they are not competitors. Crichton's love of Johns' work certainly comes forth, and Johns' seemed flattered that a best-selling novelist, and not an art professor, wanted to do a book on him. That mutual admiration underlies why this is such a solid book.
2000-04-26
| Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5
Probably as good as possible--without being intrusive
The author well restrained himself from "digging into the painful childhood" that produced such an unusually remote "negator of impulses." He brought out the positive aspects of Johns personality--his ability to laugh at himself and not always to take himself too seriously. "His work is a constant negation of impulses" said the critic..."wouldn't you say so Jasper?" "NO" says Jasper, laughing. Jasper can laugh. That is nice. The author respected his need for privacy in his personal life. He presented a very difficult, complex personality with dignity, humor, and good taste.
1999-01-24
| Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5
Probably as good as possible--without being intrusive
The author well restrained himself from "digging into the painful childhood" that produced such an unusually remote "negator of impulses." He brought out the positive aspects of Johns personality--his ability to laugh at himself and not always to take himself too seriously. "His work is a constant negation of impulses" said the critic..."wouldn't you say so Jasper?" "NO" says Jasper, laughing. Jasper can laugh. That is nice. The author respected his need for privacy in his personal life. He presented a very difficult, complex personality with dignity, humor, and good taste.
1999-01-24
| Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
Jasper Johns: Interesting.
Jasper Johns is a very large, and expensive book. It has many illestrations, and lots of commentary. This is a Crichton that has faded into the background, and in some cases can be very hard to find.
1998-03-31
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5
Where Is Jasper Johns? (Adventures in Art)
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Encouraging young readers' visiual and critical thinking skills, this book takes children on a journey of discovery through a selection of artworks by Jasper Johns and by artists who have inspired him. By searching for places where Jasper Johns has hidden himself in his work - some works include images of his face, profile, or his shadow - young readers are introduced, in a highly original and imaginative way, to the work of this unique American artist, and they also discover new ways of looking at visual art.
Customer Reviews
Excellent!!!!!!!!
This book is an exceptional tool in gaining a better understanding of art for children and grown ups alike!
2007-11-26
(Southern California) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
Johns Jasper News
Do It Today: Art by Jasper Johns, girlie guitar night and more. - Creative Loafing Tampa
Creative Loafing Tampa, FL - May 26, 2009
Do It Today: Art by Jasper Johns, girlie guitar night and more.It's the last week to see two great exhibits — the first, by nationally-acclaimed artist Jasper Johns, and the second by Nancy Cervenka, darling of the local art scene. Jasper Johns Prints: Things the Mind Already Knows is a 40-year retrospective of
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'Jasper Johns: Selected Prints, 1963-2008' - San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union Tribune, CA - May 22, 2009
'Jasper Johns: Selected Prints, 1963-2008'By ROBERT L. PINCUS The recent show of Jasper Johns at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego focused on one stream of imagery, the light bulb, as it cut across sculptures and prints. A current exhibition includes more than four decades of work,
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A Two-Wheeler Tour of Wine Country - New York Times
New York Times, United States - Jul 30, 2070
New York TimesA Two-Wheeler Tour of Wine CountryThe grounds were spare, unused barrels stood in the gravel driveway, and the tasting room was a narrow cement-floored space warmed by a cat named Catastrophe and a signed Jasper Johns poster. As at all the wineries I visited that Sunday,
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A Photographer Who Refused to Think Like a Photographer - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 22, 2009
A Photographer Who Refused to Think Like a PhotographerThe only rule, to paraphrase Jasper Johns, seems to be: Take a photograph. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Mr. Wood, 86, grew up during the Depression in a household that was constantly on the move. As a young man he served as a pilot in
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Raising the roof - Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jul 30, 6790
Globe and MailRaising the roofThe new space gives pride of place to works by Stella, Serra, Jasper Johns and the Surrealists in spacious, light-filled rooms. On a preview tour of the glass and limestone building, I asked whether the Modern Wing is the biggest story in Chicago this
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Jasper Johns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Jasper Johns' Green Angel: The Making of A Print" Resource Library (San Diego ... Met Buys Its First Painting by Jasper Johns". New York Times (New York Times) ...
Johns - Artchive
Detailed biography and image gallery. ... VIEW LIST OF JASPER JOHNS IMAGES ON THE WEB " ... Jasper Johns, by Leo Castelli. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective, by ...
Jasper Johns: Biography from Answers.com
Jasper Johns , Artist Born: 15 May 1930 Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia Best Known As: The highly-paid artist who did Flag Jasper Johns is an artist
Jasper Johns - About the Painter | American Masters | PBS
In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force leading the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete.
Jasper Johns - Artcyclopedia
Directory of online images available from museums and art galleries.
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