Jasper Johns: Decoy
2019
Computer Files, Websites
Jasper Johns’s Decoy is rooted inside the notions of reproduction, transformation and memory. Believing that an image gains new meaning each time it is presented, Johns boldly confronts his own past work, most notably Ale Cans (1964), and uses Decoy as a method of metamorphosis. The repetition of certain motifs allows Johns to confront the change an image goes through when approached from a different angle or placed in a new artistic context. As he notes the film, "each time a motif is used and reused additional memories accrue, new layers of meaning, and the image itself begins to acquire its own history." It is through Johns’s reimagining that the items he features in his work take on new life and grow from object to art, thus redirecting society’s interpretation.
Main title:
Author:
Blackwood, Michael, film directorJohns, Jasper, actorGrosman, Tatyana, actorMichael Blackwood Productions (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Michael Blackwood Productions, 1972.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1972.In English
Performers:
Jasper Johns, Tatyana Grosman
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
424048
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/5348155/external-image - Cover Image