Word: johnses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jasper Johns is a technical virtuoso [Oct. 31], but please do not confuse craftsmanship with aesthetic significance. When one sets up concerns for the "object" as Johns has done in White Flag, that person is not dealing with universal issues.
In Toledo, home of Owens-Corning, the industry leader, home-insulation buyers must wait four to six weeks for one of their city's most famous products. Demand is so great that the three biggest producers-Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Johns-Manville Corp. and Certain-Teed Corp.-are allocating...
"Using the design of the American flag," Johns once remarked, "took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels...
The "corpse" of Corpse and Mirror alludes to a surrealist game like "consequences," in which a piece of folded paper was passed around, with each player adding a section of drawing to the unseen one before. The game produced weird and poetic monsters on paper. Johns' interest is only...
There is an arbitrary quality to Johns' recent motifs-the hatching and the painted flagstones. They seem hermetic and trivial, both at once. They lack the iconic force of the flags, maps, numbers and targets. No painter ever marked time more elegantly. But there can be no summing-up...