Jasper Johns: Regrets

Hardback

Main Details

Title Jasper Johns: Regrets
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christophe Cherix
By (author) Ann Temkin
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:72
Dimensions(mm): Height 267,Width 230
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780870709586
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations With 72 illustrations in colour and black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Museum of Modern Art
Imprint Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date 18 August 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie's auction catalogue. Inspired not only by the photographic image, but also by the physical qualities of the object itself, Johns took this motif through a succession of cross-medium permutations. He also incorporated into his art the text of a rubber stamp he had made several years ago, to allow him to efficiently decline the myriad requests and invitations that come his way: 'Regrets/Jasper Johns'. But the stamp's text also calls to mind the more familiar connotations of regret, such as loss, disappointment, and remorse, invoking an enigmatic sense of melancholy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of this recent series of paintings, drawings and prints, created over the last year and a half through an intricate combination of techniques, this publication presents each of the sixteen new works in full colour. An essay by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, examine the importance of process and experimentation, the cycle of dead ends and fresh starts, and the incessant interplay of materials, meaning, and representation so characteristic of Johns's career over the last sixty years.

Author Biography

Ann Temkin is The Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Reviews

Painter Lucian Freud is the subject of this small gathering of Jasper Johns's latest works.--Howard Halle "Time Out New York"