Fred Orton writes on Jasper Johns with clarity as well as conviction...If Orton engages you with the play of words and concepts, he is equally adept at drawing you close into Johns' paintings...With equal authority, Orton analyzes the critical distinction, as articulated by Johns himself, between the actual and the figured.
-- Richard Shiff ArtForum
A significant contribution to the large body of literature about one of the more provocative and enigmatic artists of the mid- and late-twentieth century.
-- Michael J. Prokopow Boston Book Review