a little knowledge can go a long way ... a lot of professionals are crackpots ... a name means a lot just by itself...
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jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms ... starting in the late 1970s with the posters that jenny holzer pasted on buildings in new york city, and up to her recent xenon projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness,
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Jenny Holzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the ...
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Jenny Holzer began the Truisms series in 1977 as a distillation of an erudite reading list from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City, where she was a student; by 1979 she had written several hundred one-liners.
www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_65_1s.... www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_65_1s.html
Jenny Holzer's Truisms is still one of my favorite works of art: "Holzer's Truisms have become part of the public domain, displayed in storefronts, on outdoor walls and billboards, and in digital displays in museums, galleries, and other public places,... ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Jenny Holzer Truisms...
ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/11/jenny_holzer_tr.ht... ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/11/jenny_holzer_tr.html
MEN ARE NOT MONOGAMOUS BY NATURE ... ; PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS;
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Select a truism. ... To improve or replace the truism ... Yours will be added to a new master list.
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adaweb is a research and development platform, a digital foundry, and a journey. here, artists are invited to experiment with and reflect upon the web as a medium, and as a means of distribution for their work. ... is now an archive, presenting the material produced between Feb. 1995 throu gh March ... please visit our...
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LED display of some of Holzer's "Truisms" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Sorry it's a bit shaky, it was hard to hold my camera steady. Oh, and it's better to watch it muted because the only so... ... Jenny Holzer "Selections from Truisms"
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An early Jenny Holzer art work, ... Johnson and others have noted the connections between Holzer's "truisms," currently the subject of a museum show, and the 140-character text squibs people are writing on twitter.com--specifically, Johnson is taking on the meme "Jenny Holzer is the patron saint of Twitter." My take on...
www.tommoody.us/archives/2009/04/01/jenny-holzers-truis... www.tommoody.us/archives/2009/04/01/jenny-holzers-truisms-vs-twitter/
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