Curated as carefully as an exhibition, this collection of timeless images and timely writings gives readers a unique pathway through this enormous, and enormously influential, collection. One hopes for something resembling truth, some sense of life, even of grace, to flicker, at least in the work.-Jasper Johns-The Broad’s latest exhibition, Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth, is a monumental homage to the artist, whose career has spanned over six decades. Readers will delight in essays by filmmaker John Waters on Jeff Koons music critic Greil Marcus on Christopher Wool novelist Siri Husvedt on Anselm Kiefer travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer on Takashi Murakami Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Mark Stevens on Cy Twombly and former Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, John Elderfield on Jasper Johns, among many other pairings. This spring, the Broad Museum in Los Angeles gathers together works from all the phases of his career for the major exhibition Something Resembling Truth. is getting a teaser with Jasper Johns: Something Resembling the Truth at the Broad. This book highlights The Broad collection’s depth by assembling a sharp cast of cultural leaders, writers, critics, and curators to share their insights, experiences, and diverse points of view on some of The Broad collection’s most celebrated artists. Jasper Johns review: SFMOMAs broad strokes ART REVIEW Jasper Johns show at SFMOMA teases but doesnt quite add up. The upcoming landmark Jasper Johns retrospective at the Whitney isn’t due until 2020, but L.A. They operate the collection as a “lending library” through an enterprising loan program to institutions around the world. and former Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, John Elderfield on Jasper Johns, among many other pairings. Broad / Stephanie Barron and Lynn Zelevansky - Southern boys go to Europe: Rauschenberg. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts. Building a collection and more: talking with Eli and Edythe L. Johns studied briefly (194748) at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and then moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist. Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites. Jasper Johns, (born May 15, 1930, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.), American painter and graphic artist who is generally associated with the Pop art movement. The accompanying texts include an interview with Eli and Edythe Broad by exhibition curators Stephanie Barron and Lynn Zelevansky, as well as essays by art historians Thomas Crow, Sabine Eckmann, Joanne Heyler, and Pepe Karmel, which place the works in critical and historical context.This volume of superb writing and lavish illustrations pays tribute to one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the world and now a major new museum, The Broad in Los Angeles.įor more than four decades Eli and Edythe Broad have fostered public appreciation of contemporary art through their collection of nearly 2,000 works, notable for its incredible sophistication and breadth. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art. This catalogue, published in conjunction with the exhibition, illustrates the objects in the exhibition as well as several related works from the Broad collections. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. Together, these works form an invaluable record of the artistic achievements of the past forty years. German artists such as George Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer are also represented. There is so much of Johns’ life to discover in The Broad’s new exhibition, Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth, the first major L.A. The show highlights American artists whose paintings, sculptures, and photographs the Broads have acquired in depth, among them Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Cy Twombly, Johns, Koons, and the Los Angeles artists John Baldessari, Sharon Lockhart, Charles Ray, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Therrien. The Prints Of Jasper Johns, 1960 1993: A Catalogue Raisonne Jasper Johns. Yes, Johns is named for a patriot who saved a flag, but it was the one you see above, not the revolutionary stars and stripes (see example below) An American flag circa 1777. Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is the first large-scale exhibition of the Broads' achievement, presenting more than 100 works of art from these two significant collections. So, just to correct a widely-held Art World myth, Jasper Johns is not descended from a hero who rescued an American flag.
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