Word: johnses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, in 1965, the director of the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, Samuel Green, took the pratfall from the ivory tower in a preface to the world's first book on pop art, an emetically extravagant volume by a writer named John Rublowsky. Yet who today shall say he...
Johns and Rauschenberg, then, and Oldenburg, and some Warhol, a good deal of Lichtenstein and a few pieces by Rosenquist and (surprisingly enough, in view of his calamitous recent work) by Jim Dine: such are the survivors. The losers are more numerous.
Goode's constructed fragments of staircases are among the emptiest works of art ever to travel east of the Rockies, and Ruscha's variations on the painted word-as-object, which derive from Jasper Johns, are so cute that Alloway's normal eloquence is reduced to calling...
Johns Hopkins University, Washington University, several other universities, and "practitioners from small communities are collaborating in the study," Moore said.
For more than ten years we have been swamped in a glutinous flow of propaganda about art as investment. It oozes from every crack in our visual culture and its molds proliferate on every class and kind of object, from medieval ivories to Dogon totems, from a sepia drawing by...