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Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract Expressionists. Johns's striking use of popular iconography, such as flags, numbers and maps, rendered with a distinctive textural, painterly surface, made a colossal impact. In this handsomely illustrated study, skilled writers examine Johns's pioneering oeuvre and offer a detailed overview of the career and international significance of this subtlest of craftsmen. SELLING POINTS: . A study of one of America's greatest contemporary artists illustrated with his paintings, sculptures, drawings and collages, and with texts written by leading academic experts, published to accompany his retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London . Includes Johns's most iconic works, sculptures, works on paper and collages 200 colour images

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His work speaks to the sense that truth is never certain or static, especially for things like nationhood.... Johns introduces these complicated ideas in a self-assured yet vernacular style unmatched by any of the American avant-gardists working in the latter half of the 20th century.--Matthew Holman Apollo Magazine Johns's enigmatic and epigrammatic work irradiated self-belief, and announced, in clarion terms, that the dominance of abstraction was over, kaput, defunct. He had discovered a clever way of reintroducing reality into the realm of fine art.--Alastair Sooke The Telegraph

...the enormous new catalogue raisonee of Jasper Johns, a five-volume monument to the most inscrutable figure in modern American art.--Jason Farago New York Review of Books His work speaks to the sense that truth is never certain or static, especially for things like nationhood.... Johns introduces these complicated ideas in a self-assured yet vernacular style unmatched by any of the American avant-gardists working in the latter half of the 20th century.--Matthew Holman Apollo Magazine Johns's enigmatic and epigrammatic work irradiated self-belief, and announced, in clarion terms, that the dominance of abstraction was over, kaput, defunct. He had discovered a clever way of reintroducing reality into the realm of fine art.--Alastair Sooke The Telegraph The formidable catalog for the formidable exhibition...--Peter Plagens Wall Street Journal

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Roberta Bernstein is a professor at the University at Albany, New York (SUNY), and author of the catalogue raisonné of Jasper Johns's paintings and sculptures. Edith Devaney is curator of contemporary projects at the Royal Academy of Arts, where she was co-curator of 'Abstract Expressionism' (2016). Hiroko Ikegami is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University and author of The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art (2010). Morgan Meis is an essayist and critic who writes about art and culture for many newspapers and magazines, among them Harper's, n+1, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. Robert Storr was an influential curator at MoMA, New York, for over a decade. More recently Dean of Yale University School of Art, he has written on such major post-war artists as Guston, Richter, Close, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt and Bourgeois, among many others.

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