JOHNS, JASPER

1930–, American artist, b. Augusta, Ga. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp in the mid-1950s, Johns attempted to transform common objects into art by placing them in an art context. His flags and target images executed from 1954 to 1959 heralded the pop art movement. Johns based his painting technique on the informal brushwork and texture of abstract expressionism, attaching literal elements such as rulers and brooms to the canvas. His bronze castings, such as Beer Cans (1960), are also derived from common objects. His later works, such as the Seasons (1987), have become increasingly self-referential, using recurrent motifs as symbols to pull the viewer into an engagement with the work.

See studies by R. Bernstein (1985), M. Rosenthal (1988), and G. Boudaille (1989).

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Death, 'Deathlessness' and Existenz in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
Book by Filiz Peach; Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Subjects: Death, Existentialism, Jaspers, Karl--1883-1969
Jaspers, K., General Psychopathology...and M. W Hamilton (tr. ), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 GP Jaspers, K., Philosophical Autobiography...ed.), The Philosophy of K. Jaspers, Open Court Publishing, 1974...
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Pioneer: a History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874- 1899
Book by Hugh Hawkins; Cornell University Press, 1960
Subjects: Johns Hopkins University--History
...brought ____________________ 29 S. S., "Johns Hopkins University and Prof. Huxley," New York Observer , Sept. 21, 1876. 30 Walter Hines Page to Sarah Jasper, Oct. 15, 1876 , quoted in Burton J. Hendrick , The Training...
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The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
Book by James M. Jasper; University of Chicago Press, 1997
Subjects: Dissenters
...Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Isserman, Maurice. 1987. If I...Rendezvous with Death . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Jasper, James M. 1988. "The Political Life Cycle of Technological...
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Plato, Derrida, and Writing
Book by Jasper Neel; Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
Subjects: Authorship--Philosophy, Derrida, Jacques--Contributions In Criticism, Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Plato
...matology , by Jacques Derrida, pp. ix-lxxxvii. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. Steinhoff Virginia N. "The Phaedrus...Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1985. Van LaRue Hook. "Alcidamus Versus...
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Iliad, Book Nine
Book by Jasper Griffin, Homer; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Achilles (Greek Mythology)--Poetry, Epic Poetry, Greek, Trojan War--Poetry
and Phoenix The Best of the Achaeans Johns Hopkins, 1979 , 49-55 . Apart from the very questionable myth, and the oddity of supposing that wise Nestor would select as...
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Morality and Virtue in Poetry and Philosophy: A Reading of Homer's Iliad XXIV
Journal article by Hektor K.T. Yan; Humanitas, Vol. 16, 2003
Subjects: Homer--Criticism and interpretation, Iliad (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Morality--Analysis, Virtue--Analysis, Virtues--Analysis
...Edwards, Homer, Poet of the Iliad (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins; 1987), Jasper Griffin, Homer (Oxford: Oxford University Press...the Kantian idea of pure rationality. (38) See Jasper Griffin, Homer on Life and Death (Oxford: Clarendon...
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Artmaking, Subjectivity, and Signification
Journal article by Sydney Walker; Studies in Art Education, Vol. 51, 2009
Subjects: Art education, Artists studios, Clinical medicine, Neurosciences, Problem solving, Social networks, Students, Theory
...the article looks at painters Jasper Johns and Elizabeth Murray and sculptor...Herrings construction of TASK and Jasper Johns drawing commands could be drawn...intuitive thinking mode taking up Jasper Johns drawing commands strategy. One...
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Racing Thoughts: Altering Our Ways of Knowing and Being in Art through Computer Hypertext
Journal article by B. Stephen Carpenter II, Pamela G. Taylor; Studies in Art Education, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Art education, Computer assisted instruction--CAI, Hypertext, Interactive media
...Do something else to it.1 (Jasper Johns in Rosenthal, 1990, p. 16) In 1983, artist Jasper Johns created and re-created objects...they have not directly referred to Jasper Johns. Does such a connection or link...
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"Committing the Perfect Crime": Sexuality, Assemblage, and the Postmodern Turn in American Art
Journal article by Jonathan D. Katz; Art Journal, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Art exhibits, Poetry, Rauschenberg, Robert
...through negating that Jasper Johns, Rauschenbergs subsequent...and psychological, of Jasper Johns at the time. The...romantically involved with Johns-Collection of 1954...diving board. In 1958, Jasper Johns painted Mey Oop, which...
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Robert Rauschenberg's Queer Modernism: the Early Combines and Decoration
Journal article by Tom Folland; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 92, 2010
Subjects: Art history, Artists, Homosexuality
...displays that Rauschenberg had done with Jasper Johns under die pseudonym Matson Jones...his circle of lovers and friends, Jasper Johns, Susan Weil, Ray Johnson...even from the usually reticent Jasper Johns.6 Clement Greenberg, who...
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Split Decisions: Jasper Johns in Retrospect
Magazine article by Rosalind E. Krauss, Christopher Knight; Artforum International, Vol. 35, September 1996
Subjects: Johns, Jasper--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Split decisions: Jasper Johns in retrospect by Rosalind E. Krauss...surfaces. In his 1994 book Figuring Jasper Johns, Fred Orton speaks of Johns connection...Christian Geelhaar, "interview with Jasper Johns," in Jasper Johns: Working Proofs...
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"Jasper Johns: Gray"; Art Institute of Chicago
Magazine article by Carroll Dunham; Artforum International, Vol. 46, February 2008
Subjects: Artists--Works, Johns, Jasper--Works, Narrative art (Visual arts)--Exhibitions
"Jasper Johns: Gray"; Art Institute of Chicago. by Carroll Dunham JASPER JOHNS has been the subject of so many career...of the truth. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED "Jasper Johns: Gray" will be on view at the Metropolitan...
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Jasper Johns
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 264, January 27, 1997
Subjects: Johns, Jasper--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Criticism and interpretation
...initially be seen today as a Jasper Johns by (to change our paradigm) any schoolboy. Johns claimed it as his own in...being slangily designated "Jaspers" the way Wellington bombers...real precedents. Indeed, Johns has claimed that it came...
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Jasper Johns, 'Alley Oop,' 1958
Magazine article by Richard Shiff; Artforum International, Vol. 34, March 1996
Subjects: Johns, Jasper--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Modern--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jasper Johns, Alley Oop, 1958 by Richard Shiff Familiarity...precisely when I first encountered Jasper Johns Alley Oop, a touchstone for my thinking about physicality and process. Along with Johns flags, targets, and numerals, Alley Oop...
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Jasper Johns: 'In Memory of My Feelings' - Frank O'Hara, 1961
Magazine article by Wayne Koestenbaum; Artforum International, Vol. 32, March 1994
Subjects: Johns, Jasper--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Abstract--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jasper Johns: In Memory of My Feelings - Frank OHara...addicted to obfuscation, I visited the Jasper Johns retrospective at New Yorks Whitney Museum...Could the museum help? Together we rode the Johns show like a Tunnel of Love. We clutched...
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Jasper Johns' Prints Target Everyday Objects
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, June 2, 2001
Subjects: Johns, Jasper
Jasper Johns prints target everyday objects by Joanna Shaw-Eagle A display of Jasper Johns works at a New York gallery in 1958 showed...into images of AIDS sufferers. WHAT: "Jasper Johns: Prints From Four Decades" WHERE: West...
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Intellect and Jasper Johns
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 3, 2007
Subjects: Johns, Jasper
Intellect and Jasper Johns. Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE...the National Gallery of Arts "Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955...call. +++++ WHEN YOU GO WHAT: "Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955...
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FOCUS ON; Your Money: JASPER JOHNS' FLAG
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 14, 2010
Subjects: Personal finance
FOCUS ON; Your Money: JASPER JOHNS FLAG. Byline: MELANIE WRIGHT Instant expert JASPER Johns Flag, painted between 1960 and 1966, is an...not only an expert on and collector of Jasper Johns, but also considered a great one himself...
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Homes Gossip; JASPER HAS DESIGNS ON A WILTSHIRE CASTLE
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 15, 2010
Subjects: Residential real estate
Homes Gossip; JASPER HAS DESIGNS ON A WILTSHIRE...Wiltshire, fashion designer Jasper Conran will keep the nine...sterling8.5 million in 2007. "Jasper became disenchanted with Ven...selling her six-bedroom St Johns Wood house for pounds sterling6...
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Could That Really Be a [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; May 16, 2009
Subjects: Johns, Jasper
...highly-collectable American artist Jasper Johns. The picture seemed to have been...Goldsmiths University. He lectures on Jasper Johns, he advised. I promptly sent...were now dead. All except one: Jasper Johns himself, by now in his late 70s...
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Johns, Jasper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JOHNS, JASPER 1930 , American artist, b. Augusta, Ga...Influenced by Marcel Duchamp in the mid-1950s, Johns attempted to transform common objects into...Rauschenberg , John Cage , and Merce Cunningham , Johns eschewed the idea of the artist-hero and...
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Contemporary Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...media. Improvisational and Dada -like styles employed in the early 1960s and thereafter by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns had widespread influence, as did the styles of many other artists. The most significant of the often loosely defined...
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Rauschenberg, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at New Yorks Art Students League. In the late 1950s he came under the influence of Marcel Duchamp . With his friend Jasper Johns , Rauschenberg became a pivotal figure in the emerging pop art movement, and together they were vital to initiating...
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Cunningham, Merce
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is especially known for his collaborations with American artists, including Andy Warhol , Robert Rauschenberg , and Jasper Johns , who have created sets and costumes for his productions. His later works include Locale and Duets (both 1980...
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American Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rejecting the concepts of beauty and ugliness. Its major practitioners included Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein , Jasper Johns , and Robert Rauschenberg . Other nonobjective styles of painting and sculpture flourished concurrently with pop art...


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