Object number1985.19.18

(Untitled)

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Inflammatory Essays

Date1979-1982

Artist Jenny Holzer (American, 1950-)

CultureAmerican

MediumCommercial offset lithograph in black ink on thin, wove tan 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: 85.19.18

ProvenancePurchased from Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Vassar Exhibitions

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
DescriptionBlack italic text against a tan background reads: CHILD MOLESTATION IS ABHORRENT. / THIS DEVIATION IS UNIVERSALLY / CONDEMNED. ALL PEOPLE ARE SICKENED / AND ENRAGED BY THE ACT. IT IS / TELLING THAT PRISONERS, WHO ARE NOT / KNOWN FOR THEIR HIGH STANDARDS, / OSTRACIZE AND KILL CHILD MOLESTERS. / NO PUNISHMENT IS TOO SEVERE; CHILD / MOLESTERS HAVE ROBBED THE BABIES / OF THEIR INNOCENCE, THE MOST / PRECIOUS POSSESSION OF CHILDHOOD. / MOLESTATION LEAVES SPIRITUAL, / EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL WOUNDS THAT / MAY NEVER HEAL. THE FRIGHTENING / ASPECT OF THE ABUSE IS THAT MOLESTED / CHILDRED OFEN BECOME CHILD MOLESTERS. / THE AWUFUL CYCLE MUST BE STOPPED / BEFORE ANY MORE CHILDREN ARE / DEFILED AND RUINED. MOLESTERS / SHOULD BE RENDERED IMPOTENT.

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