Jenny Holzer art breaks [videorecording] / Jenny Holzer. [1990]

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Jenny Holzer art breaks [videorecording] / Jenny Holzer. [1990]

Appropriating the form and language of advertisements, Jenny Holzer's texts are designed as interventions in commercial communication. Her terse and sometimes humorous social commentaries provoke thought and criticism in an often passive audience.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Holzer, Jenny, 1950-....

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Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1950. She received a B.A. from Ohio University in Athens in 1972, and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1977. Holzer often uses language in her work, which includes silk-screened paintings, video, and public light projections. From the description of Art breaks [videorecording] / Jenny Holzer. [1990] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 680518066 Videotape production by Mark Pellington an...