The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists

For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work--depictions of everyday objects and signs such as flags, targets, flashlights, and lightbulbs--helped change the face of the art world in the 1950s by introducing subject matter that stood in contrast to the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism. In subsequent decades, Johns's art has increasingly engaged issues of memory...