Jasper Johns: Night Driver Published by La Fábrica.
Edited by Enrique Juncosa. Text by Enrique Juncosa, Colm Tóibín, Roberta Bernstein, Terry Winters. The definitive volume on Jasper Johns, covering over seven decades of production Published with Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
This volume provides a sweeping overview of American artist Jasper Johns’ (born 1930) life and work. A giant of postwar art, Johns’ analytical and self-reflexive work contributed to the development of Pop art, Minimalism and Conceptual art. He is best known for depicting quotidian symbols in a variety of mediums, including oil, ink, pencil, collage and relief. Indeed, Johns’ oeuvre attests to his tireless experiments with representation and mark-making.
This volume traces the artist’s production across seven decades, highlighting key motifs realized through paintings, drawings and prints. From his iconic flag, target, number and map paintings of the 1950s; to his abstract crosshatch design and art historical citations of the ’70s and ’80s; to his complex, layered late works, which often build upon previous themes. Titled after a 1960 charcoal, pastel and collage drawing on paper, Night Driver guides readers through the artist’s recursive, yet ever-evolving corpus. The monograph opens with three illustrated essays on Johns—one of which is penned by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín—and concludes with a conversation between Johns and painter Terry Winters.
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