Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Jasper Johns, as well as the co-editor with Jennie Hirsh of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, and Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility, co-edited with Nora Wendl. Professor Wallace is currently completing on a second book on Jasper Johns and co-editing a volume on ventriloquism and contemporary art.
On Fracture and Fraternity: The Many Faces of Jasper Johns
Art historian Isabelle Loring Wallace takes a close look at the recurring motif of the fractured face in Jasper Johns’s art, revealing references as disparate as Pablo Picasso’s Woman in a Straw Hat, a drawing made by a schizophrenic girl in the 1950s, and a slouching demon in Matthias Grünewald’s famed Isenheim altarpiece.
