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Jenny Holzer — Inflammatory Essays
Jenny Holzer

Inflammatory Essays

Jenny Holzer's *Inflammatory Essays* consists of a series of bold, text-based works featuring short, provocative written statements designed to challenge, agitate, and confront the viewer. The works employ stark typography to deliver charged, rhetorical language that blurs the line between propaganda, poetry, and political manifesto. By stripping away imagery and foregrounding raw language, Holzer transforms words themselves into a powerful visual and conceptual medium.

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November 30, 2018

Estimate: $2,000$4,000

Lot 10

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Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays

Jenny Holzer's *Inflammatory Essays* consists of a series of bold, text-based works featuring short, provocative written statements designed to challenge, agitate, and confront the viewer. The works employ stark typography to deliver charged, rhetorical language that blurs the line between propaganda, poetry, and political manifesto. By stripping away imagery and foregrounding raw language, Holzer transforms words themselves into a powerful visual and conceptual medium.

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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Provocative Language, Public Art, Conceptual Art, Street Poster, Contemporary Artist, American Artist, Political Art, Female Artist, Activist Art, Text-Based Art, Bold Red, Typographic Design

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Art Institute of Chicago