Land's End
Primary
Jasper Johns
(Augusta, Georgia, 1930–)
Printer
Gemini G.E.L.
(American)
Publisher
Gemini G.E.L.
(American)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1979
MediumLithograph
Edition Info17/70
Catalogue raisonnéGemini 831
DimensionsSheet: 51 1/2 × 36 in. (130.8 × 91.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1980.60
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1980.60
On View
Not on viewJasper Johns is notorious for using language to emphasize the ambiguous, even arbitrary relationship of works to their meanings. In Land's End, he includes the names of colors in an otherwise monochromatic composition, thereby generating a tension between their function as linguistic signifiers and their presence as abstract visual elements, resistant to fixed meaning.
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