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  • Jenny Holzer
    / Education and early work

    …cultural theory culminated in the Truisms series (1977–79). The works, composed of seemingly familiar slogans such as ā€œAbuse of power comes as no surprise,ā€ were originally presented by Holzer as phrases on anonymous posters and were later presented on T-shirts, billboards, and electronic signs. These texts, fraught with cynicism and…

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    …cultural theory culminated in the Truisms series (1977–79). The works, composed of seemingly familiar slogans such as ā€œAbuse of power comes as no surprise,ā€ were originally presented by Holzer as phrases on anonymous posters and were later presented on T-shirts, billboards, and electronic signs. These texts, fraught with cynicism and…

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