Object number1985.19.14

(Untitled)

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Inflammatory Essays

Date1979-1982

Artist Jenny Holzer (American, 1950-)

CultureAmerican

MediumCommercial offset lithograph in black ink on thin, wove pale blue-grey paper

EditionUnlimited edition

DimensionsSheet: 17 x 17 in. (43.2 x 43.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, lower right corner in pencil: 85.19.14

ProvenancePurchased from Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Vassar Exhibitions

Presses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties

Body Matters

Exhibition HistoryPresses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, January 13 - March 19, 2006;

What Now? (Or Not Yet), Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 21 - September 10, 2023
DescriptionBlack italic text against a light blue-grey background reads: YOU GET SO YOU DON'T EVEN / NOTICE THE HALF-DEAD VAGRANTS / ON THE STREET. THEY'RE ONLY / DIRTY GHOSTS. THE ONES WHO / SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE / ARE THE UNEMPLOYED WHO AREN'T / WEAK YET. THEY STILL CAN / FIGHT AND RUN WHEN THEY / WANT TO. THEY STILL THINK, / AND THEY KNOW THEY HATE / YOU. YOU WON'T BE A PRETTY / SIGHT IF THEY GO FOR YOU. / WHEN YOU'RE OUT WALKING, / YOU LOOK AT THE MEN FOR / SIGNS OF LINGERING HEALTH / AND OBVIOUS HATRED. YOU EVEN / WATCH THE FALLEN ONES WHO / MIGHT MAKE A LAST MOVE, / WHO MIGHT CLAW YOUR ANKLE / AND TAKE YOU DOWN.

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