tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162618892808115761.post7825714099426907301..comments2024-01-02T09:31:53.375-05:00Comments on BELLEMEADE BOOKS: Jill Johnston (1929-2010): "Come on, Jill, be a lady"M Bromberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765520463415074032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162618892808115761.post-79482773758912936172010-10-09T13:14:45.155-04:002010-10-09T13:14:45.155-04:00". . .Jasper Johns: Privileged Information” (...". . .Jasper Johns: Privileged Information” (1996), which explored the artist’s works as a series of evasions and subterfuges rooted in conflict about his homosexuality,"<br /><br />Glueck and the rest of the critics couldn't possibly have read Jill's book. Here's one intelligent critic who got it, Charlie Finch, "Jill and Jasper were friends, but then she started asking intimate questions about his art, and they were not about its purported homoerotic content, but about Jasper's Southern roots, his military forebears, his upbringing in a ramshackle house full of relatives and his use of the famous Matthias Grunwald altarpiece repeatedly in his work. Jill's curiosity bordering on benign obsession, she was the first to admit, got Jasper's goat.<br />Well, goatgetting is what the best critics do, and Jill got her share. I hope she has a soft cubbyhole on the eternal farm."<br />Best regards, Ingrid NyeboeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com