Watchman, Spy, and Dead Man: Johns, O’Hara, Cage

Modernism / Modernity, 8, no. 2 (2001): 197-223.

How does the flag sit with us, we who don’t give a hoot for Betsy Ross, who never think of tea as a cause for parties?

–John Cage, “Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas”[1]
In a sketchbook for 1964, Jasper Johns began to make notes for his paintings Watchman […]