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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0000195
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Work Title (display):
Laments (I Want to Live?)
Image Title:
installation view
Work Dates (display):
1989
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Jenny Holzer (American, born 1950)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
American installation and conceptual artist. Her studies included general art courses at Duke University, Durham, NC (196870), and then painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago before completing her BFA at Ohio University, Athens (1972). In 1974 she took summer courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, entering its MFA programme in 1975 and beginning her first work with language, installation and public art. Holzer moved to New York in 1977. Her first public works, Truisms (19779), appeared in the form of anonymous broadsheets pasted on buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan. Commercially printed in cool, bold italics, numerous one-line statements such as 'Abuse of power comes as no surprise' and 'There is a fine line between information and propaganda', were meant to be provocative and elicit public debate. Thereafter Holzer used language and the mechanics of late 20th-century communications as an assault on established notions of where art should be shown, with what intention and for whom. Her texts took the forms of posters, monumental and electronic signs, billboards, television and her signature medium, the LED (light emitting diode) sign. Other works appeared on T-shirts, tractor hats, stickers, metal plaques, park benches and sarcophagi. The LED signs have been placed in high-impact public spaces such as Times Square, New York, as well as in art galleries and museums. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-26)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1990
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
sarcophagi (coffins)
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sarcophagi (coffins)
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Work Subject:
life
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life
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Work Subject:
death
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death
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
verde antique marble sarcophagus and electronic LED sign
Work Measurements (display):
sarcophagus 45.7cm (H) x 137.3 cm (W) x 61.3 cm (D); LED sign 325.8 cm (H) x 24.1 (W) x 14 cm (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
425.2002.a-c
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
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Work Rights (display):
© Jenny Holzer
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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