Follow @yaleARTbooks An interaction with the works of Jasper Johns is an interaction with the processes of perception. His enormous impact on the development of Pop art, Minimalism and Conceptual art in the 1950s and 1960s had much to do with his dedication to and manipulation of our limits of
Yale University Press is publishing the catalogue for the recently opened Jasper Johns retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Jasper Johns: Gray.” New York Times art critic Roberta Smith praises the show in her review, calling it “moody, opulent and eloquent.” She says that “scores of museum exhibitions have
Jasper Johns: Gray is an intriguing and elegant look at Johns’s sustained exploration of the color gray in paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture over the past 50 years. This book is the companion to the Johns exhibition which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, running until May 4.