About this title: Fusing criticism and biography, this work offers insight into the life and work of America's pre-eminent living artist. Assigned to write a review of Jasper Johns's "The Seasons", a series of paintings that would be acclaimed at the 1988 Venice Biennale, Jill Johnston became intrigued by a mysterious detail in each of these paintings which is designed to look like a jigsaw puzzle piece. She found the source of this detail in Grunewald's 16th-century masterpiece, the "Isenheim Alterpiece" and it was this image, of a grotesquely diseased and dying man, that helped Johnston unlock an ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st UK edition, large 8vo, 335pp, photo illustrations; a previous owner has scribbled a few notes on the rear endpaper o/w VG Copy in VG DJ. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st UK edition, large 8vo, 335pp, photo illustrations; a previous owner has scribbled a few notes on the rear endpaper o/w VG+/Fine Copy in VG+/FIne DJ. read more
Description: New. 0500017360 Thames & Hudson hardcover w/dustjacket, 1996, 1st edition, No marks or 'shelf wear'...as New/as New...New mylar cover, bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation...NOT a remainder. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 0500017360 First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Not ex-Library, no remainder marks, not price clipped. DJ protected with UV resistant, archival safe mylar wrap. Fine copy in Fine DJ. DJ shows very minor shelf wear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, 1996. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: 1/2 cloth/ Papered Boards
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 335pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or pinkish papered boards with white cloth spine. Excellent biographical and critical work on this secretive American artist. read more
Edition: FIRST
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : NY, Thames and Hudson, 1996
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. As New/As New. ISBN: 0500017360. A fine first in dj. Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. Photos & reproductions. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Binding is Octavo. 335 pgs with bibliography & index. Cloth in red dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Biography Books jacket has a small rip, creases and slight wear. Spine is slightly bent. Pages are unmarked. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 335pp. Illustrated. Former owner's name/info is marked over with a black marker on the front flyleaf. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine + in Fine jacket. 8vo. A crisp, clean, unread copy. 335 pages, 29 illustrations. Notable for the inclusion of Johns' genealogy as an appendix; also includes bibliography and index. Featuring interviews with Johns and his contemporaries as well as biographical and anecdotal information about his life and career, this volume looks beyond Johns' acclaimed formal strategies for the personal resonance of his artwork. The author examines Johns and his works within the context of the contemporary ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Quarter Cloth
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Near-Fine in Near-Fine jacket. Large 8vo-Nearly 10" Tall. 335 pages, illustrated with B&W photographs. An extraordinary biography of America's preeminent artist, providing a brilliantly original account of Jasper Johns, the man, his life and his work. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780500017364ISBN:0500017360
Description: Fine in Fine dj. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 335 pages with index. 22 pages black and white photos. The book is in FINE/AS NEW (unread) condition. The jacket is in FINE condition and comes with a BRODART cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and. other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: The book begins with a mystery-Jill Johnston's search for the source of a hidden figure in a number of Johns's paintings. That figure ... read more
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