Article: Jasper Johns: the examined life. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)(Cover Story)

The Jasper Johns retrospective recently held at the Museum of Modern Art about one of America's most widely exhibited artists (Johns's full exhibition history is so extensive that it is being supplied, together with a biliography, on CD-ROM), the MOMA retrospective arrived at an opportune moment. There is now a sufficient amount of production since the juncture that occurred in Johns's art in 1982 to evaluate this controversial body of work and understand its relationship to Johns's earlier output. In 1984, Johns described the change in his art as follows: "In my early work I tried to hide my personality, my psychological stak, my emotions. This was partly to do with my ...

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