Comment Ecrire Pour Jasper Johns/How to Write for Jasper Johns

This unpedited text by Michel Butor is half way between an essay and a poetical homage to the American artist, with whom met with on various occations during his academic and literary career.In Butors own words: I have been able to write a littleMoreThis unpedited text by Michel Butor is half way between an essay and a poetical homage to the American artist, with whom met with on various occations during his academic and literary career.In Butors own words: I have been able to write a little about Jasper Johns and of him. I have tried to write for him. Only he can say if I have succeeded. Original French text, translated to English and to German. Illustrations: colour reproductions of Jasper Johns works from the collections of the Kunstmuseum of Basle, Switzerland.