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MoMA’s retrospective chronology records that Johns’s art was widely discussed in the late 1950s as both an extension of and an attack on Abstract Expressionism.
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b. 1930
Artist whose flags, targets, numbers, and material procedures were historically read both as extending and attacking Abstract Expressionism; AEU keeps that double framing explicit.
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MoMA’s retrospective chronology records that Johns’s art was widely discussed in the late 1950s as both an extension of and an attack on Abstract Expressionism.
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