Fiorades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns
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Fiorades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns Details
From Library Journal Based on a traveling exhibition from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA's Wight Art Gallery, this catalog expands into a much more substantive study of contemporary "Old Master" Johns's collaboration with Samuel Beckett. Represented here is a brilliant, subtle culmination of Johns's graphic style; at the same time, a complex range of written and semiotic imagery is analyzed deeply through essays, reproductions, and terse pieces by Johns and Beckett. Johns's place in modern art is already assured; this book illustrates his desire to move beyond his large cryptic paintings into a wider investigation. Scholarship on Johns is thereby advanced, but the fine reproductions remain the most exciting aspect of this book.- Paula Baxter, NYPLCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more
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