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Figuring Jasper Johns (Essays in Art and Culture)
Figuring Jasper Johns - Essays in Art and Culture Author:Fred Orton Fred Orton offers the clearest and most penetrating picture yet of the enigmatic American painter, Jasper Johns."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 an... more »alyzes the critical distinction, as articulated by Johns himself, between the actual and the figured."_Richard Shiff, ArtForum "A significant contribution to the large body of literature about one of the more provocative and enigmatic artists of the mid- and late-20th-century."_Michael J. Prokopow, Boston Book ReviewFred Orton is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Leeds, U.K.« less