Jasper Johns
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Critiques of Pure Abstraction
Critiques of Pure Abstraction presents the work of 20 artists who practice various forms of pure abstraction.
read more »Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1976-1988
The arts of the book offer an infinite variety of delights to the eye and intellect. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see great books, illustrated by modern masters, removed from locked museum, library, and collectors cabinets, and presented in the expansive manner they deserve. Often lavish and iconoclastic, these volumes invite an intimacy […]
read more »Verbally Charged Images
Verbally Charged Images demonstrates how text can be used to alter ones perception or preconceptions of the visual image by providing a subjective framework, thus reversing the traditional image-text relationship in which the image illustrates the text. Although the mode of rhetoric varies from work to work, as does the location of the text in […]
read more »Mapped Art
What is a map? In semiotic terms (where meaning is a matter of marking) a map is a sign or coherent combination of signs, a codified set of marks that indicate the details and nuances of topographical and political actualities.
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