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Article: Jenny Holzer.
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- March 22, 2009
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Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, New York
Jenny Holzer, like many young artists in the late 1970s and early '80s--Keith Haring for one--began her career pasting anonymous offset posters on building walls, garbage can covers, postal boxes and fences around New York. Truisms (1977-79), her very first public work, consisted of 257 alphabetized statements printed in bold italic lists, culled and condensed from her readings of literary classics. With statements such as "MONEY CREATES TASTE," "ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE" and "MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE," her intent was to provoke and elicit public debate. "I am someone who likes to blurt things out ...