''Jasper Johns'' is a non-fiction

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written by Michael Crichton about the artist

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

. It was originally published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams Inc in association with the

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, and a second revised edition () was published in 1994. It is his second non-fiction book. In Crichton's 1972 novel, ''

The Terminal Man ''The Terminal Man'' is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton. It is his second novel under his own name and his twelfth overall, and is about the dangers of mind control. It was published in April 1972, and also serialized in ''Playboy' ...

'', psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting ''Numbers'' by Jasper Johns. The technophobic antagonist of the story found it odd that a person would paint numbers as they were inorganic. Michael Crichton himself had a serious art collection, including several works by Jasper Johns. Most of them were sold at an auction in

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in 2010.

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