Jasper Johns

JASPER JOHNS

A revised and updated introduction to the art of Jasper Johns.

Illustrated. www.crmoon.com

American artist Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and grew up in Allendale, South Carolina. He moved to New York City in 1949, where he remained for much of his life (more recently he has lived in Connecticut). Johns was associated with artists such as Marcel Duchamp, one of his heroes, and Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he lived in 1950s. His first solo show was in 1958 (at ...