Jasper Johns

by Richard Francis

Book Overview

For more than thirty years Jasper Johns has been making art that teases viewers with the willful obscurity of its content, while offering rich visual pleasures with the beauty of its form, color, and surface. In 1955 he painted his first Flags, which, with the Target and Numbers that soon followed, were to become his most famous work. His transformation of such common place images into art helped to shatter the dominance of Abstract Expressionism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558592520
• ISBN13: 9781558592520
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.1"