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Fred Orton writes on Jasper Johns with clarity as well as conviction...If Orton engages you with the play of words and concepts, he is equally adept at drawing you close into Johns' paintings...With equal authority, Orton analyzes the critical distinction, as articulated by Johns himself, between the actual and the figured. -- Richard Shiff "ArtForum"
Synopsis
An attempt to come to terms with the challenging contemporary artist, Jasper Johns, that also provides a way of approaching American art of the 1950s and 1960s. Orton (history of art, U. of Leeds) focuses on three key works Untitled (1972), Flag (1954-55), and Painted Bronze (1960). He shows how John's work makes use of the modernist opposition bet
