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Jasper Johns: Gray (Art Institute of Chicago)

Douglas W. Druick, James Rondeau Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago
Jasper Johns (b. 1930), one of today's most acclaimed and influential artists, is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-colour experimentations have figured prominently in his productions since 1955, and within that...
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Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

Roberta Bernstein, Lilian Tone, Jasper Johns The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jasper Johns's art unites mastery, mystery, simplicity, and contradiction. His methodical working process combines intense deliberation and experimentation, obsessive craft, cycles of revision and repetition, and decisive shifts of direction. Johns...
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A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns

John Yau, Jasper Johns D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
This beautifully illustrated and profoundly original volume of essays by the New York poet and critic John Yau mounts one of the most eloquent defenses of the art and vision of Jasper Johns ever written--going well past tired and traditional...
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Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965

Jeffrey Weiss Yale University Press Yale University Press
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United...
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Jasper Johns: The Business of the Eye (Taschen Basic Art Series)

Barbara Hess Taschen Taschen
Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using wax-based paint, plaster relief, collage, and even commonplace objects such as...
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Where Is Jasper Johns? (Adventures in Art)

Debra Pearlman Prestel Publishing Prestel Publishing
Encouraging young readers' visual and critical thinking skills, this book takes children on a journey of discovery through a selection of artworks by Jasper Johns and by artists who have inspired him. By searching for places where Johns has hidden...
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Drawing From The Modern

Agnes Martin, Gary Garrels, Carl Andre, Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Dan Flavin The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of...
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Jasper Johns: Light Bulb

Hugh Davies, Stephanie Hanor, Mark Lancaster, Jasper Johns Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
The underlying subject matter of Jasper Johns' work is not the object represented, but the investigation of how we perceive, label and categorize objects. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name with stops in Princeton, San...
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Jasper Johns: Drawings: 1997-2007

Thomas Crow Matthew Marks Gallery Matthew Marks Gallery
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