Jenny Holzer (Contemporary Artists)
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Now in Paperback~Jenny Holzer gained widespread recognition when texts from her Truisms series appeared on a vast electronic advertising board overlooking Times Square. Throughout her career, Holzer has intrigued audiences by placing her provocative messages in unexpected contexts, including posters, metal plaques, stone benches, electronic signs, television spots and Web sites. Her canny melding of the mediums of mass culture with an unadorned, emphatic language is perfectly attuned to an age of advertising slogans, headlines and sound bites. Yet despite the very public nature of much of her work, Holzer has also created more intimate pieces for display in galleries and museums. Her stunning installation at the 1990 Venice Biennale was awarded first prize and brought the artist international acclaim, proving that Holzer's art is equally compelling wherever it is shown--in a setting calculated to reach the masses or in the most rarefied art spaces. This book features a complete collection of the artist's writings, up to and including her 1996 text for a monument in Erlauf, Austria, accompanied by color photography of the entire range of her installations and projects. In an insightful essay and a lively interview with the artist, Diane Waldman traces the history of Holzer's series of writings and the varied environments in which they have appeared. The volume is rounded off with a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. Essays by Diane Waldman and Jenny Holzer. Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in./144 pgs / 64 color 17 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20391
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This revised and greatly expanded edition of the book originally published on the occasion of Holzer's celebrated exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989 is a comprehensive document of the artist's career. A complete collection of the artist's writings, up to and including her 1996 text for a monument in Erlauf, Austria, is accompanied by color photography of the entire range of Holzer's installations and projects.
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Jenny Holzer (Contemporary Artists),Jenny Holzer,Phaidon Press,0714837547,1950-,20th Century Art,American - General,Art & Art Instruction,Artists,Artists, Architects, Photographers,Biography & Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Criticism and interpretation,Holzer, Jenny,,Individual Artist,Interviews,Popular Culture - Counter Culture,United States,Women And Art,Art / Popular Culture,Holzer, Jenny
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