jenny holzer inflammatory essays

A collection of 10 offset prints with incisive messages on social, sexual and political issues, created by Jenny Holzer in 1979-1982. The MACBA Collection features the graphic material, the original title and the artist's biography of this work that explores language as a creative medium.

Jenny Holzer - Inflammatory Essays, 1979-1981, installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, photo: Brian Forrest The reaction of the public. Motivated by the need to include discernible content in her work rather than abstract content, Holzer started placing words in her pieces, typically in the form of scraps of newspapers, as well as book and magazine clippings.

'Inflammatory Essays', Jenny Holzer, 1979-82 'Inflammatory Essays', Jenny Holzer, 1979-82. Skip navigation. Shop. Become a Member. Main menu. Art and artists. Our collection Artists Artworks Art by theme Explore Videos Podcasts Short articles In depth Art Terms Tate Research Student resources Make art ...

Before galleries were vying to show her work, Jenny Holzer advocated for herself by taking to the streets with a DIY approach. Under cover of night, adhesive in hand, she plastered her multicolored "Inflammatory Essays" (1979-82) around New York City neighborhoods that corresponded with the messages contained within the series of text-based posters.

Originally plastered around New York City without attribution in the late 1970s and early 80s, Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays were made to confront passersby. Though she was relatively unknown at the time, Holzer's careful combination of poetics and politics soon drew international attention and acclaim. In 1990, she became the first woman to officially represent …

Originally presented anonymously on the streets of New York City, the mass-produced short texts that make up Inflammatory Essays cover a variety of subjects that have been ongoing concerns throughout Holzer's career, including power, social control, abuse, consumption, and sex. Declarative and forceful in tone, they embody her distinctively ...

Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text. Jenny Holzer (American, born in 1950) 1991 Medium/Technique L.E.D. (light-emitting diode) electronic-display signboard in three colors (yellow, green, red).

Inflammatory Essays(Essais incendiaires) [1979 - 1982] ln writing this series of provocative texts, Holzer was inspired by political theorists, religious fanatics and impassioned "folk" literature. In these hundred-word, twenty-line essays, Jenny Holzer explored a range of ideas extending from the far left to the far right in an aggressive and ...

See Jenny Holzer's 'Inflammatory Essays' street posters. In the 1970s Holzer abandoned her practice as an abstract painter in order to make more explicit statements and to establish more direct contact with a larger audience than would visit galleries. Her art began to appear in the form of texts on posters which were exposed on the streets ...

Hear our staff talk about their favourite artworks. Here, Jessye Bloomfield shares her views on Jenny Holzer 's lithograph Inflammatory Essays, on display at Tate Modern. Continue the conversation in the gallery and tell us what you think.

See all 62 artworks ›. Blue Tilt, 2004. Jenny Holzer. Untitled (Fear is the Most Elegant Weapon…), from Inflammatory Essays, 1979/82. Jenny Holzer. Untitled (Don't Talk Down to Me), from Inflammatory Essays, 1979/82. Jenny Holzer. Plate, from Truisms, 1977-79.

Jenny Holzer. Inflammatory Essays: 25 works, circa 1979-82. Phillips. Bidding closed. Elephant and Artsy have come together to present This Artwork Changed My Life, a creative collaboration that shares the stories of life-changing encounters with art. A new piece will be published every two weeks on both Elephant and Artsy.

Holzer began transforming these readings into her "Inflammatory Essays" (1977-82), which she pasted across New York City walls, lampposts, and subway stations to provoke public debate. "I try to reach a broad audience, the biggest possible," the artist once said. For each"Inflammatory Essay," Holzer followed a strict formula ...

Jenny Holzer Title Untitled (Fear is the Most Elegant Weapon...), from Inflammatory Essays Place United States (Artist's nationality:) Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries ...

Her 1977 "Inflammatory Essays" are eerily relevant today. In the late 1970s, when artist Jenny Holzer was a student at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, she, like many students, wrote essays, which she described in retrospect as " hot, flaming, nasty things .". Only, unlike the average term paper, Holzer's treatises ...

Inflammatory Essays is a set of 10 printed posters in different colors.Abrasive, biting commentary is hardly organized in a ramble of thoughts and ideas, though Holzer's stream-of-consciousness is a valuable source of insight—her feminist dogmas rise to the surface in the allusions to "him" as a perpetrator of violence.

Learn about this artwork by Jenny Holzer in the Guggenheim's Collection Online.

From Phillips, Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays: 10 works (1979-82), Ten offset lithographs in black, on various coloured wove papers, with full margins.

Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York and other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced they subverted the conventions of both advertising, graffiti and public art. The texts were derived from her childhood interest in ...

Did you know Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays are opposite the museum's architectural veil in our third-floor gallery? Jenny Holzer is an artist who uses words in her art. Holzer's short texts...

Bidding for Inflammatory Essays, Jenny Holzer has ended. Create an alert to get notified when similar works become available. Create Alert. ... Inflammatory Essays, 1979-1982. Ten offset lithographs on multi-colored paper. 16 1/4 × 16 1/4 in | 41.3 × 41.3 cm. Bidding closed.

Jenny Holzer Title Untitled (Change is the Basis...), from Inflammatory Essays Place United States (Artist's nationality:) Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or ...

Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York and shortly after in other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced, they subverted the conventions of both advertising, graffiti and public art.

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