Jasper Johns: Regrets

Bys: Christophe Cherix and Ann Temkin

In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie's auction catalogue. Inspired not only by the image, but by the physical qualities of the photograph itself, Johns took this motif through a succession of cross-medium permutations. He also incorporated into his art the text of a rubber stamp he had had made several years earlier to allow him to efficiently decline the myriad requests and invitations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870709585
• ISBN13: 9780870709586
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 10.8"