Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: In her book Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan, the artist works with a palette of what might be called detritus: sketches of crushed cans, cigarette packages, and burnt matches coreside with real bottle caps, crack vials, and even a stuffed rat, all of which form the substance of her work. This obsession with the rejected also is found in her travel journals, pages of which are reproduced in facsimile in the book. In these records of her travels across the United States and around the world, Jernigan ups the ante for the standard travelogue by pasting in cobwebs from . . .
DOI: 10.5860/rbm.4.1.214
Author: Timothy G. Young
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1935984639