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Description: The Disappearance Of Objects: New York and the Rise of the Postmodern City
In 1959, Jasper Johns bought a cheap, spring-loaded window shade and affixed it to a large canvas. After pulling the paper down and tacking it in place, he painted the whole object—in stony black, gray, and white—with his newfound vocabulary of jagged starbursts, broad horizontals, and...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.50-92
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00132.005

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