JASPER JOHNS A revised and updated introduction to the art of Jasper Johns. Illustrated. www.crmoon.com American artist Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and grew up in Allendale, South Carolina. He moved to New York City in 1949, where he remained for much of his life (more recently he has lived in Connecticut). Johns was associated with artists such as Marcel Duchamp, one of his heroes, and Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he lived in 1950s. His ?rst solo show was in 1958 (at Leo Castelli in Gotham). Johns has become one of the U.S.A."s premier artists, guaranteed a mention in any critical study or art history book of modern art and contemporary art, American art, and avant garde art. Jasper Johns" reputation was greatly enhanced in the late Eighties by the boom in the economics of the art world: on November 9, 1988, Johns" White Flag fetched $7 million in a sale of the Burton and Emily Tremaine collection. Johns" False Start went for $17 million the...