Research Catalog

Title

Jasper Johns : regrets / Christophe Cherix and Ann Temkin.

Author

Johns, Jasper, 1930-

Publication

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cherix, Christophe
• Temkin, Ann
• Johns, Jasper, 1930-
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm.

Summary

"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 image, but by the physical qualities of the photograph 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 had made several years earlier 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, evoking an enigmatic sense of melancholy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of this 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 new works in full color. An essay by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, examines 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' career over the last 60 years." -- Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Regrets

Subject

• Johns, Jasper, 1930- > Exhibitions
• Johns, Jasper 1930-
• 1900 - 2099
• Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 15-September 1, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 33).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Jasper Johns: regrets / Christophe Cherix and Ann Temkin -- Plates -- Appendix -- Works in the exhibition.

ISBN

• 0870709585
• 9780870709586

LCCN

^^2014940200

OCLC

• 880566826
• SCSB-9991016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library