The author begins this challenging monograph by probing Modernism's
surfaces and subjects, its public and private meanings, in order to
establish Johns's importance as the modern allegorical artist in
the years after Abstract Expressionism. Yet, "Figuring Jasper
Johns" is not an essay that presumes to offer an instant
interpretation. Rather, Fred Orton self-consciously constructs a
"Jasper Johns" whose work is introduced and explained in three
chapters, each of which addresses a specific picture or sculpture
like "Flag," "Painted Bronze (Savarin)" and "Untitled 1992," These
in-depth studies situate individual works in their social context
as well as in Johns's oeuvre.
Fred Orton's purpose is to get to terms with - and find terms for -
a difficult and elusive body of work by one of the most important
artists of the 20th century.
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