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Jasper Johns: Tautological Paintings


Flag, 1954-55

 

Target, 1969


Flag above white collage, 1955

 

Two Flags (in six parts), 1973

    

Three Flags, 1958


Target, 1974




Concept Art has its roots in Pop Art.

Joseph Kosuth: "And in Jasper Johns' work – such as his 'Target' and 'Flag' paintings and his ale cans – one has a particularly good example of art existing as analytical proposition." ("Art after Philosophy, part II." Studio International, November 1969, p.161)