(227) Vernon Fisher American, born 1943 Tutor To A Lunatic, 1996 Oil on blackboard slating on wood, porcelain Purchase with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable, and gift of the artist and Charles Cowles Gallery, 1996.23 a-b Vernon Fisher plays havoc with the relationship between images and language. Here, for example, many of the words are names of stars, an allusion underscored by what appears to be a map of the heavens. In the midst of all this appears Pluto -not the word, the planet, or the god, but the Disney character. |