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Title: Jenny Holzer (Contemporary Artists) by Jenny Holzer ISBN: 0-7148-3754-7 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jenny Holzer- Protect me from what I can't see
Comment: Have you ever stopped to think how many times we are bombarded by truisms everyday? Get this book and you will get a clue. In the Truisms series over exposure to banality reveals how numbed out we all are. Take a cliche like "Children are the hope to the future" and place beside "Children are the most cruel of all". We say and repeat these truisms but do we really realize that they are empty in themselves ? Do we perceive the contradictions ? How we mold reality to suit our needs ? Truisms sooth us with the cushioned feeling of the "generally accepted truth". Jenny Holzer literally splashes intimate thoughts, truisms, activist slogans over the landscape. These truths, half-truths and huge lies stare out at us in billboards, park benches like a conscience made physical. This is art made on the very border of reality and language.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic coverage of a fantastic artist.
Comment: The book listed on this page, a monograph on Jenny Holzer by Phaidon Press, is fabulous. It contains information on Holzer's wide and influential art career, from her Truisms posters of the 'seventies to her electronic LED signs, carved stone benches, and virtual art pieces of the 'nineties.
This book is also unique, within the Holzer bibliography, because of the "Artist's Choice" section where Holzer provides excerpts from books and writings that have influenced her, along with explanations of why she's moved by them.
If you're interested in modern art, or women artists, this is a must-read
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Title: Laments by Jenny Holzer ISBN: 0944521177 Publisher: Dia Art Foundation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances by Barbara Kruger ISBN: 0262611066 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Cindy Sherman: Film Stills by Cindy Sherman, Peter Galassi ISBN: 0870705075 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Love for Sale by Kate Linker ISBN: 0810926512 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 30 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mike Kelley by John Welchman ISBN: 0714838349 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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