Object number1985.19.23

(Untitled)

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Inflammatory Essays

Date1979-1982

Artist Jenny Holzer (American, 1950-)

CultureAmerican

MediumCommercial offset lithograph in black ink on thin, wove pink 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: 85.19.23

ProvenancePurchased from Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Vassar Exhibitions

Body Matters

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

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 pink background reads: IT'S MOSTLY LOVE THAT MAKES / YOU LOOK AT FINE ANKLES AND / THEN BREAK THEM. THE ANKLE IS / WHERE THE MOVING POWER OF THE / LEG TAPERS TO AN EXQUISITE / STEM OF BONE. SADLY, THE FOOT / COMES NEXT, ANCHORING WONDERFUL / CREATURES TO THE DIRT. DEER, / WADING BIRDS AND THE BEST / PEOPLE HAVE FINE ANKLES. / IT'S GOOD TO CRACK THEIR / SUPPORTS SO THEY'LL FALL / DOWN IN AS LOVELY CURL. THEN / YOU'LL CARE FOR THEM SO THEY / WILL BE FREE FROM ALL CRASSNESS / AND STRUGGLE. YOU'LL WATCH / THE SHATTERED ANKLES HEAL / AND MEANWHILE , THE CREATURES / LIVE IN A STATE OF GRACE / AND SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

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