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Article: Figuring Jasper Johns.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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When a critic's involvement reaches high intensity, a kind of identification occurs and the rhetoric of the critical writing begins to reflect the nature of the topic. Yet to the extent that criticism not only addresses its topic but comes to identify with and somehow resemble it, this situation often generates conviction more than clarity. Fred Orton writes on Jasper Johns with clarity as well as conviction, but don't read him to delimit and comprehend Johns (an impossibility to which Orton is ever alert); read him to explore criticism, interpretation, and art. His writing identifies with each of these practices as it investigates them.
The keys to Orton's work are ...
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