by Artist (7)
Object Results
No image available.
Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/7236
Truisms and Essays
1979-198220th century
253 x 253 mm (10 x 10 in.)
Jenny Holzer, American, b. born 1950
Object Type:
prints
Medium and Support:
white wove paper (large); multicolored papers (Hammermill Bond) (small)
Edition:
Portfolio of two large and fifteen small posters
Marks:
Signed in ink on verso of the two large posters.
Marks:
Watermark:
“HAMMERMILL / BOND / MADE IN USA” [on two prints, 1985.8.1.8 and 1985.8.1.17]
Bibliography:
Print Collector’s Newsletter 13 (November/December 1982), pp. 149–152.
Credit Line:
Gift of Jean Feinberg (former Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery Curator), 1985
Accession Number:
1985.8.1.1-17
Keywords
Click a term to view the records with the same keyword
This object has the following keywords:
- satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
- social satire
- words in art - LC sh 85148125
Dimensions
- sheet Dimensions: 253 x 253 mm (10 x 10 in.)
DAC Downloadable Open Access Image
No open access image available
Credit Caption
Jenny Holzer, American, b. born 1950 . Truisms and Essays, 1979-1982. white wove paper (large); multicolored papers (Hammermill Bond) (small). sheet : 253 x 253 mm (10 x 10 in.). DAC accession number 1985.8.1.1-17. Gift of Jean Feinberg (former Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery Curator), 1985.