Jasper Johns (b 1930), is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-colour experimentations have figured prominently in his productions since 1955, and within that significant subset of his work, the majority of monochromes are grey. This book, spanning Johns' full career, examines this singular preoccupation.
Cy Twombly's artworks merge drawing, painting, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression. This book features more than 30 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures.
In a 1979 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, American conceptual artist Michael Asher, relocated a 20th-century bronze cast of Jean-Antoine Houdon's marble George Washington from the museum's front steps to an interior gallery. This book focuses on Asher's 2005 installation at the Art Institute, for which he again relocated the statue.