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INFLAMMATORY ESSAYS (1979-1982) Influenced by Holzer's readings of political, art, religious, utopian, and other manifestos, the Inflammatory Essays are a collection of 100-word texts that were printed on colored paper and posted throughout New York City. Like any manifesto, the voice in each essay urges and espouses a strong and particular.
Wikipedia entry Introduction Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces.Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects.
Jenny Holzer remembers the AIDS crisis in New York all too well. The quickening drumbeat of deaths in the 1980s and ’90s, the fear and homophobia generated by the epidemic, the grieving of New York’s arts communities—for the 66-year-old artist, it’s impossible to forget. “It came out of the blue,” she says on a recent afternoon in.
Holzer began creating these works in 1977, when she was a student in an independent study program. She hand-typed numerous “one liners,” or Truisms, which she has likened, partly in jest, to a “Jenny Holzer’s Reader’s Digest version of Western and Eastern thought.” She typeset the sentences in alphabetical order and printed them.
Holzer was the artist whose Truisms, Inflammatory Essays and projections brought poetry and politics to the field of typography, whether they were pasted guerrilla-style around New York or illuminated on the sides of buildings. Lang was the Austrian minimalist whose bondage straps and clean silhouettes defined the stripped-back aesthetic of the 90s. United by their similar approaches.
Holzer, from whose Inflammatory Essays the piece is taken from, is best known for her bold text-based pieces, many of which are delivered in public spaces. Some of her most famous works include.
Jenny Holzer’s concise, often enigmatic, writings infiltrate public life and consciousness through everyday objects such as T-shirts, posters, LED signs, and benches, as well as paintings and sculpture. A cross section of these objects is included in Holzer’s new installation, which spans the artist’s career, incorporating ephemera, painted metal signs, posters and drawings. The opening.