The title is a play on the schematics of modernist visuality of figure and ground, in this sense it is a tautological text in that it illustrates the exhibition's conceptual framework when the letters in the title organize themselves into «formas sobre fondo» [forms on a ground]. (artviewer.org)
The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture,» in Black Popular Culture (Seattle: Bay Press, 1992). (dailyserving.com)
Robinson hangs a big part of the blame on Clement Greenberg's lingering influence, the»... straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of making a painting...» whose legacy was the emphasis on visuality over the material substance of painting. (dennishollingsworth.us)