PRINCETON, NJ - In Jasper Johns's Hands, a Simple Object Glows
Posted on December 6, 2008 at 4:41 PM.
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Pleasure is something you receive from an artwork; beauty is a quality intrinsic to it. Art can be pleasurable to look at without being beautiful. I am moved to these thoughts by an unglamorous but very pleasurable exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum. "Jasper Johns: Light Bulb" looks at the role that a simple object, the incandescent light bulb, has played in the work of the artist, who is now 78.
In Jasper Johns's Hands, a Simple Object Glows
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