Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print

Published in 2012 ISBN 978-1-891771-60-6 96 pages, 10 x 13 in. 35 color illustrations Hardcover   Published by the Harvard Art Museums and Hatje Cantz Verlag.   Winner, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Best of New England (BoNE) 2013 Award Centering on Jasper Johns’s signature “crosshatch” works in the Harvard Art Museums collections, this catalogue explores the impact of print on the artist’s oeuvre. It examines “print” and “the press” with reference not only to Johns’s experiments in printmaking, but also to print as a medium of information transfer, tracing his frequent use of newsprint, with its temporal, political, and formal implications. Complementing the selection of Johns’s production with works by Albrecht Dürer, Sol LeWitt, Pablo Picasso, and others, the volume examines the history and character of print as it informs Johns’s work in all media. This catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies grew out of a collaboration between the Art Museums and Harv