This volume provides invaluable insight into the life and work of Jasper Johns.
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is widely accepted as one of the most significant and influential artists to emerge in America in the post-war period. Beginning his career in New York at a time when the modern art scene was dominated by the formidable paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns forged a unique artistic path that echoed the painterly qualities of his contemporaries whilst working with materials and themes in a manner that questioned the very nature of art.
Working in a social and artistic environment that included such major avant-garde figures as Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), the dancer and choreographer, Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), and the composer, John Cage (1912–1992), Johns was at the heart of a generation of American artists that helped to shape twentieth-century art, paving the way for many of the major movements – from Pop Art to Conceptualism – that followed.
This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early Flag and Target paintings – which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art – to the compelling compositions of the recent Catenary series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.
As Isabelle Wallace effectively demonstrates, in casting a critical eye on painting and the concept of representation more generally, Johns has consistently challenged ideas that have often been taken for granted, and in the process revitalized painting for an era that was quick to proclaim its obsolescence.
Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her research attends to broad philosophical questions about the nature of representation and subjectivity, and her publications have covered a wide range of artists and objects in an effort to address these issues: Edouard Manet, Marcel Duchamp, Jenny Saville, Wim Delvoye, Paul Pfeiffer, Steven Meisel and, most intensively, Jasper Johns. Wallace is co‐editor, with Jennifer Hirsh, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (2011), and with Nora Wendl, of Architectural Strategies in Contemporary Art, (2013).
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评分作为一名长期关注当代艺术的爱好者,我总是试图在浩瀚的艺术海洋中寻找那些能够真正触动灵魂的作品。这本书的封面设计,以及其所透露出的沉静而又充满力量的气息,让我立刻产生了一种强烈的想要深入了解的冲动。我预感,这本书的内容不会仅仅停留在对艺术作品的简单陈列,而是会深入挖掘其背后的文化语境、社会影响,甚至是艺术家个人的生命轨迹。我特别期待书中能够有对艺术家创作理念的详尽阐述,例如他如何看待艺术在当代社会中的角色,他如何处理创作中的挑战与困境。如果书中能包含一些艺术家本人的访谈记录,或者评论家们对其作品的独到见解,那将极大地丰富我的阅读体验。我希望这本书能够帮助我建立起一个更完整、更深刻的关于这位艺术家的认知体系,理解他的艺术语言是如何在时间的长河中演变和发展的。
评分我喜欢那些能够带来全新视角和启发性思考的书籍,而这本书在某种程度上满足了我这种需求。它传递出的那种低调却又引人入胜的气质,让我觉得它可能蕴含着一些不为人知的艺术秘密。我常常会对那些看似平凡的日常事物,在艺术家的手中被赋予截然不同的意义而感到惊叹。我猜想,这本书可能就是这样一本,它会带领我重新审视那些被我们忽略的细节,发现隐藏在熟悉事物背后的深刻含义。我期待书中能够呈现出艺术家在创作过程中所经历的那些“aha moment”,那些突然涌现的灵感火花,以及他如何将这些瞬间转化为具有生命力的艺术作品。如果书中能够提供一些关于艺术家如何看待“已知”与“未知”,或者“简单”与“复杂”之间的关系的思考,那对我来说将是极大的收获。
评分这本书的书脊设计就足够吸引人,是一种低饱和度的蓝灰色,带着些许磨砂质感,触感温润。烫金的艺术家名字 Jasper Johns 并不张扬,却在光线下闪烁着低调的光泽,仿佛艺术家本人内敛而又深刻的艺术风格。我喜欢这种不落俗套的设计,它在书架上能一眼被辨认出来,又不会喧宾夺主。拿到手的时候,沉甸甸的分量就预示着内容的厚重。翻开扉页,纸张的质感也相当考究,厚实且带着天然的纤维纹理,闻起来有淡淡的书香,让人不禁放慢了翻阅的速度。书的整体排版也显得格外用心,图片与文字的间距、字号大小都恰到好处,既方便阅读,又不显得拥挤。即使在灯光不那么充足的环境下,也能清晰地欣赏书中的艺术作品。我特别留意到,书页的装订方式似乎也经过了特殊的处理,翻开时非常平整,可以完全摊平,这对于仔细观察画作细节至关重要,不会因为书页的弯曲而产生视觉上的干扰。整体来说,这本书在视觉和触觉上都传递出一种精致和专业感,让人对即将展开的阅读内容充满了期待。
评分我一直对那些能引发深入思考的艺术作品情有独钟,而从这本书的书封传递出的那种意境来看,它似乎能提供给我这样的体验。封面上那一抹充满张力的色彩,或者是一种极简主义的构图,都暗示着艺术家可能在探索一种超越表面意义的表达。我设想着,书中的文字内容或许会像侦探小说一样,层层剥茧,揭示出艺术家创作背后的逻辑和灵感来源。我期待的不仅仅是作品的展示,更希望通过解读,能够触碰到艺术家独特的思维方式,理解他选择某种媒介、某种符号的深层含义。想象一下,如果书中详细分析了某件作品的创作过程,从最初的草图到最终的完成,中间经历了怎样的挣扎和蜕变,那将是非常引人入胜的。我喜欢那种能够激发我提问,让我主动去寻找答案的书籍,而这本书给我的第一印象,就是具备这种潜力。它不仅仅是一本画册,更像是一扇窗户,让我得以窥探一个艺术家的内心世界,感受他与这个世界的对话。
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