From Library Journal
Based on a traveling exhibition from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA's Wight Art Gallery, this catalog expands into a much more substantive study of contemporary "Old Master" Johns's collaboration with Samuel Beckett. Represented here is a brilliant, subtle culmination of Johns's graphic style; at the same time, a complex range of written and semiotic imagery is analyzed deeply through essays, reproductions, and terse pieces by Johns and Beckett. Johns's place in modern art is already assured; this book illustrates his desire to move beyond his large cryptic paintings into a wider investigation. Scholarship on Johns is thereby advanced, but the fine reproductions remain the most exciting aspect of this book.
- Paula Baxter, NYPL
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Paula Baxter, NYPL
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
James Cuno is the president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He served as president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2004 until 2011. He is the author of Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage, coauthor of The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago, and coauthor and editor of Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities and Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust.
