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Etchings by James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, as well as other less well-known artists, are currently on display at the Fogg Museum in the special exhibition "Etching and Etchers Since 1850." The show highlights etchings done since etching became a rare artistic medium--that is, since the invention of photography and less expensive print processes allowed for mass-production of illustrations and rendered etching an inefficient process...
...stage and wrote one of the first texts on information technology (Electronic Life, in 1983). He ran a software company. He designed a computer game. He wrote essays for Wired, the hot computer magazine, even before it was hot. He collects modern art and once wrote a book about Jasper Johns. He has married four times, beginning a sort of anthropological study of the institution...
What mainly preserved her work was homosexual taste: in various ways it influenced Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns (who would take over the device of monogram letters around the frame of her portrait of Marcel Duchamp) and a host of others. The ghost of Florine also hovers, one feels, behind the marvelous illustrations of Edward Gorey...
...most fashionable abstract painter alive. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Twombly belongs to the generation of American artists that followed Abstract Expressionism and had to contend, Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy in 1957 and has lived there ever since...
...course of this dark assemblage, some surprisingly familiar names come to light notables such as Rembrandt Delacroix, Matrisse, Jasper John and Ahdy Warhol show their darker sides. And we get a disturbing perspective on some of our old favorites--Johns' signs ture stars and stripes become muddied, and Warhol's shiny look at Campbell's soup becomes squished and overladen with murky images...