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Author Joselit, David.

Title Jenny Holzer / David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl
Published London : Phaidon, 1998

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Description 160 pages ; 29 cm
regular print
Series Contemporary artists
Contemporary artists.
Contents Interview: Joan Simon in conversation / Jenny Holzer -- Survey: Voices, Bodies and Spaces: The Art of Jenny Holzer / David Joselit -- Focus: Cut-and-Dried Bodies or How to Avoid the Pervert Trap / Renata Salecl -- Artist's Choice: III Seen, III Said (extract), 1981 / Samuel Beckett. Crowds and Power (extracts), 1960 / Elias Canetti -- Artist's Writings / Jenny Holzer. Book Report - A Response to Artist's Choice, 1997. Truisms, 1977-79. Inflammatory Essays (extract), 1979-82. Living (extract), 1980-82. Under a Rock (extract), 1986. Mother and Child, 1990. War (extract), 1992. Erlauf (extract), 1995
Summary Holzer has been at the forefront of American art since her work first came to prominence in the early 1980s. She is known for text based works which may appear as spectacular electronic signs, T shirts or carved marble benches
Notes POTTINGER 52012170 X1 GBP20 18/2/99
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160)
Notes Also issued online
Subject Holzer, Jenny, 1950- -- Interviews.
Holzer, Jenny, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Artists -- United States -- Interviews.
Conceptual art -- United States.
Installations (Art) -- United States.
Words in art.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Author Salecl, Renata, 1962-
Simon, Joan, 1949-
LC no. 98230241
ISBN 0714837547 (paperback)