Image captions are from Dienes Foundation records. The compilation of images on this site and continued research on Sari Dienes' work in the 1950s courtesy of art historian Kate Zeller.
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This work has been cited in:
Varnedoe, Kirk. Jasper Johns: A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1996-97.
In reference to Jasper Johns’ work, Flag, 1954-55, Dienes’ Tomb, 1950, is cited as follows:
“An approach to found public imagery through iconic formal configurations was also available as an immediate climate to the young Johns, in examples ranging from less-know work, such as the rubbings and collages of Sari Dienes, to the essential presence of Robert Rauschenberg.”
See pg. 94-95 of catalog
Link to image of Johns’ Flag, 1954-55: http://moma.org/exhibitions/1996/johns/pages/johns.flag.html
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