Jenny Holzer / David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holzer, Jenny, 1950-

Contributor:

Joselit, David.

Simon, Joan, 1949-

Salecl, Renata, 1962-

Series:

Contemporary artists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holzer, Jenny, 1950-.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon Press Limited, 1998.

Summary:

Among America's best-known artists, Jenny Holzer examines the power of language through glowing, disembodied texts enunciated by an unstable register of personae: is this the voice of an ad-man, a stand-up comic, a torturer, an evangelist? In addition to having written many off-quoted Truisms (such as 'Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise'), she has found visually stunning means of conveying them -- from the anonymous posters hung in the streets of Manhattan, to electronic signs in a sports stadium, to a giant installation spiralling up the Guggenheim Museum interior. Holzer, awarded the Leone d'Oro prize for her contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, fuses influences ranging from advertising to Minimalism's use of industrial materials in an innovative form of public art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).

ISBN:

0714837547

OCLC:

39667466