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Danto, Arthur C. | January 27, 1997 issue

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The article focuses on the painting "Flag," by Jasper John. Flag became so definitive an icon of twentieth-century art that scarcely anyone would think, seeing it in a case of its own at the threshold of the exhibition dedicated to Johns's art at the Museum of Modern Art, that they were looking at a displaced piece of folk art or a fading trophy from some forgotten battle on loan from a military museum. Flag achieved by virtue of being at once a representation and the object of representation, a painting of an American flag that was in truth the American flag.

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PAINTING -- Reviews; JOHN, Jasper; FLAGS -- United States; ART; POPULAR culture; UNITED States
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