Johns, Jasper (b. 1930) ARTIST

Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Ga., on 15 May 1930, the only child of William Jasper Johns and Jeannette Riley Johns, who lived in nearby Allendale, S.C. Following his parents’ divorce in 1933, he lived in Allendale with his grandparents until his grandfather died in 1939. Afterward, he lived wit...

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Published inThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture p. 344
Main Author J. RICHARD GRUBER
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The University of North Carolina Press 14.01.2013
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Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied arts
Architecture
Art exhibitions
Art galleries
Art genres and movements
Art history
Art museums
Arts
Arts participation
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Commercial buildings
Communications
Communications media
Cultural anthropology
Cultural institutions
Entertainment
Exhibitions
Expressionism
Leisure studies
Modernist art
Museum exhibits
Museums
Portraits
Printmaking
Recreation
Retail stores
Social sciences
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Summary:Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Ga., on 15 May 1930, the only child of William Jasper Johns and Jeannette Riley Johns, who lived in nearby Allendale, S.C. Following his parents’ divorce in 1933, he lived in Allendale with his grandparents until his grandfather died in 1939. Afterward, he lived with his mother and aunts in homes in Columbia, Lake Murray, and Sumter, S.C. Johns described his childhood as “entirely Southern, small-town, unsophisticated, a middle-class background in the Depression years of the thirties.” Johns studied at the University of South Carolina for three semesters and then moved to New York
ISBN:9780807837184
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