Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Book jacket design for "Against Interpretation," part of Susan Sontag series. On light purple ground, a black and white photoillustration of a work by Jasper Johns depicting a place setting with a fork at left and knife and spoon at right. Below, a winding rectangular line in red. Author's name in green text above, title in green text within pale yellow rectangles below. At spine, author's name in orange text, title in green text within pale yellow rectangles, publisher's name and colophon (logo) in black at bottom. At back cover, printed text description and excerpts from reviews. Credits at lower left, bar code at lower right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Carin Goldberg, American, 1953–2023
- Artist
- Jasper Johns, American, b. 1930
- Author
- Susan Sontag, American, 1933–2003
- Publisher
- Anchor Books, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1990
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 28.3 cm (8 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
