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Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose

Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose

Artist Jasper Johns American, born 1930
Author Jasper Johns American, born 1930
Author Carlo Huber German, born 1931
Date[1971]
MediumArtificial rose: molded green and red plastic. Reproductions: photolithographs of various 2-dimensional media in black with gray and light green on coated white wove paper, and red on cardstock. Text: photolithography on white wove paper (typeface: Akzidenz Grotesk).
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.591
Not on View
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  • Works on Paper
Published Referencescf. Glasmeier, Michael, Die Bucher der Künstler, Stuttgart, 1994, no. 443Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Jasper Johns, Master Printmaker, Aug 15-Nov11, 2001 (displayed open)

Toledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.

Label TextFrom 1967 to 1978, Joseph Cladders, director of the Städisches Museum in Mönchengladbach, Germany, made a series of “box catalogues” (Kassettenkataloges) for exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists. Instead of a traditional book, these catalogues were contained in a cardboard box—a common object whose contents could easily change with each show. Jasper Johns’s box catalogue was produced in conjunction with an exhibition of his print works in 1971. It contains rolled-up, printed scrolls and a plastic rose.

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