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Painted Bronze (Ale Cans)
sculpture by Johns
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discussed in biography
- In Jasper Johns
…of two Ballantine Ale cans, Painted Bronze (1960).
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modern art
- In Western painting: American Neo-Dada: Cage, Rauschenberg, and Johns
…Johns work was the sculpture Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) of 1960. The work consists of two casts taken from beer cans, standing side by side on a plinth. By turning the Duchampian ready-made back into art (via the time-honoured process of bronze casting), Johns implicitly declared items from consumer culture…
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