Selections from Truisms / Jenny Holzer
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.151
- Title
- Selections from Truisms
- Artist
- Jenny Holzer
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1950
- Medium and Support
- electronic L.E.D. with red diodes
- Object Creation Date
- 1983
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- New York (state)
- New York (county)
- Manhattan
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- New York (state)
- Creation Place 4
- New York (county)
- Creation Place 5
- Manhattan
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
- Style/Group/Movement
- conceptual
- Dimensions
- 16.5 cm x 154 cm x 10.2 cm (6 1/2 in. x 60 5/8 in. x 4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Video
- Physical Description
- LED display running time approximately 25 minutes with looping text of approximately 170 truisms in red text.
- Subject Matter
- Holzer's Truisms were adapted from readings as part of her Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City in the late 1970s; her first series of Truisms took the form of posters that she plastered across lower Manhattan; later utilitzing billboards and t-shirts for her textual art, Holzer adopted her best-known medium, the LED (light emiting diode) display in 1982. This work runs on a continuous 25-minute loop with over 170 truisums that range from trite to humorous and ironic while engaging viewers in a participatory exchange between ideas and perceptions.
- Secondary Keywords
- electronic images
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- objects we use
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- text-based art
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2006/1.151
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.151/2006_1.151.jpg
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"Selections from Truisms; Jenny Holzer." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.151/2006_1.151.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024.
