Document Type
Forum Theme 1
Abstract
Jerré Tanner's splendid (but by no means exhaustive) monograph, On the Origins and Applications of the Grid in the Art of John Paul Thomas presents the first internet presence, in the twenty-first century, of one of the most significant artists of the twentieth. That a chasm of close to two decades could gape between the most recent examples of Thomas studies, when the internet had not yet begun its astonishing career, seems no less astonishing than that a species of "dark ages" could descend upon the work and fame of an artist of "light," and-as Tanner reveals-a re-creation of pictorial space. Perhaps Thomas's choice to leave Europe, New York, and Los Angeles behind in favor of life and work in Hawai'i placed him too far from public view, from the surveillance of several sorts of "bottom-liners." Gaugin's work and career prevailed in the face of such ignorance, apparently. Art historians will sort out this sort of thing eventually. We trace a trajectory in the Thomas career from Rome, to Life magazine, to the Whitney, to the Hirshorn, to lectures at university to…well…to Universitas.
Publication Date
Fall 2007
Journal Title
UNIversitas
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
1
Copyright
©2007 Harvey Hess and Jerré Tanner
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hess, Harvey
(2007)
"John Thomas' Art Rediscovered: An Introduction,"
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol3/iss1/2
