Isabelle Loring Wallace
False Start: Jasper Johns and the Problem of Origins
Event Details
Date
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Time
5 p.m.
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Description
Neither Johns’ first nor oldest extant work, Flag (1954-55) is often described as a personal emblem and point of origin, both for Johns’ oeuvre and postmodern culture more generally. But what kind of emblem is Flag? And, indeed, what kind of origin? With these two questions in mind, this lecture revisits Johns’ much-discussed painting and places it in dialogue with two contemporaneous, but seemingly unrelated developments outside the field of art history.
Cost
Free
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