贾斯珀•约翰斯（Jasper Johns，生于1930年）可以说是美国最重要的在世艺术家，他一直倡导素描本身是一种艺术流派，而不仅仅是其他作品的准备媒介。本目录汇集了约翰斯的41件作品，涵盖了他从1954年（他成熟实践的起源）开始的60多年的杰出职业生涯。它包含了他最**的反复出现的图案，包括旗帜，目标和数字，而大卫•布雷斯林（David Breslin）的一篇文章则将约翰斯职业生涯中的这一反复被提到的一面作了背景介绍。精美的复制品和大量的细节揭示了这位绘画大师的风格和过程，使读者感到与这位艺术家本人有着密切的联系。就像这本私密的书所展示的那样，约翰斯的艺术作品既简单又神秘，首先是对他周围世界的沉思，业是对他所谓的“在这里的条件”的不断研究。

Arguably the most important living artist in America, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic genre in its own right, not just a preparatory medium for other works. This catalogue brings together 41 of Johns’s drawings, spanning more than 60 years of his illustrious career and, beginning in 1954, the origin of his mature practice. It encompasses his most famous recurring motifs, including flags, targets, and numbers, and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes this reiterative aspect of Johns’s career. Exquisite reproductions and large-scale details reveal the touch and process of this master draftsman, imparting to the reader a feeling of being in close contact with the artist himself. As this intimate book shows, Johns’s art, at once simple and enigmatic, is above all a meditation on the world around him, a constant investigation of what he calls “the condition of being here.”