Splitting of Meaning

Inscriptions

Text, upper center: 7 SPLITTING OF MEANING / EXERCISES TO DEMONSTRATE THE DISJUNCTION, / DISASSOCIATION, ABSTRACTION, BRANDING AND RAMIFICATIONS / PERTAINTING TO SIGNIFICATION. ADDITIONAL EXERCISES MAY / ATTEMPT TO INDUCE FURTHER "UNNATURAL" SPLITTING.; lower center: PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA (SEE ABOVE) / BY La Ginconda (in script)

Exhibition History

Contemporary American Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-September 5, 1977.

Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, March 28-May 7, 1979.

Recent American Graphics, Art 53, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 18-May 25, 1980.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends, and Owen Robertson Cheatam Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.178, no.168.

Provenance

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; sold to present collection, 1977.

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