Artist

Jim Gibson

Nationality

American

Title of Work

Tennis and Mars

Preview

Date of Work

1976

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Signature

Lower right

Height

48"

Width

49"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection

Status

Stored: R05

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Additional Information

Title on artist plaque says "Tennis and Mars"

Writing along bottom of artwork:

“The magic circle, the forbidden spot, isolated, hedged round, hallowed, within which special rules obtain” Huizinga (quoting Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga's book Homo Ludens) We dream again the things of sleep in the land of awake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_circle_(virtual_worlds)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens