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A substantial new monograph on one of America's most significant artists, showcasing his paintings from the early 1980s to the presentIn the late 1970s, after the artist's explosive Pop Art beginnings and a period of abstraction, representational objects made their way back into Jasper Johns' work. Supported by the artist's words and previous scholarship, Jasper Johns is the first comprehensive study of his later paintings and works on paper.Fiona Donovan helps contextualize images that have personal significance for Johns and explain a broader humanist discourse. Readers learn of his absorption with the appropriation and abstraction of images taken from Czanne, Grnewald, Picasso, and others, and discover the inspiration Johns finds in his immediate surroundings.



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