{"id":39480,"date":"2020-05-08T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39480"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:19:13","slug":"nancy-masks-up-in-her-bathtub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/05\/nancy-masks-up-in-her-bathtub.html","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Masks Up in Her Bathtub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

She’s taking no chances.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A cartoon panel by Ernie Bushmiller<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gary Lee-Nova<\/a> has been exploring Bushmiller’s work for many years. This particular effort originated in an email exchange with Denis Kitchen<\/a> who founded Kitchen Sink Press<\/a>. Kitchen Sink published five volumes of Bushmiller’s work during the 1980s and ’90s.

“We\u2019ve been internet pals for several years,” Lee-Nova says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 During the early 1980s, when I was cutting up Bushmiller\u2019s work and collaging it, I was also involved with lectures on linguistics and semiotics.  At the time, I was covering Noam Chomsky\u2019s work on what was being called ‘Deep And Surface Structure In Language.’  While doing the collages and preparing 35mm color slides for the lectures, I titled the project ‘Uncanny Nancy Can\u2019t See Chomsky Can She?’ I was deliberately savaging the surface structures in order to force aspects of deep structure to the surface. Big-time fun!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The panel where Nancy is turning off the TV is an example of pictorial “deep structure” forced to the “surface,” Lee-Nova says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Nancy has ‘shut her eyes,’ as in ‘shutter,’ a camera shutter, CLICK, photography!’ “<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lee-Nova shared the results of his project with Kitchen, as seen below in a large silkscreened print. It has eleven collages with the original weekend Bushmiller newspaper strip shown in column #2, row #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Rhetorical figures like metonymy & metaphor appear in strange states throughout.” <\/em>Enlarge.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Taking a cue from Nancy<\/em>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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May 14: Bill Murray masks up in his bathtub on Jimmy Kimmel Live.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


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