This extensive appraisal of Richard Jackson's œuvre is a key resource on one of America's major contemporary artists, combining critical analysis of Jackson's work with wit and wisdom from the artist himself.

This massive appraisal of Jackson's art, authored by art historian John C. Welchman and featuring an in-depth illustrated chronology by Dagny Corcoran, layers analysis of Jackson's work with reflections by the artist himself, drawn from extensive interviews and placed alongside new materials from Jackson's archive. Welchman's text is the primary resource on the career of one of America's major contemporary artists.

Corcoran's chronology―pulling from extensive new research and interviews with figures such as Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman and Rosamund Felsen―traces the important events in Jackson's life.