Object number1985.19.22

(Untitled)

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Inflammatory Essays

Date1979-1982

Artist Jenny Holzer (American, 1950-)

CultureAmerican

MediumCommercial offset lithograph in black ink on thin, wove lime-green 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: 85.19.22

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 lime-green background reads: THE MOST EXQUISITE PLEASURE IS / DOMINATION. NOTHING CAN COMPARE / WITH THE FEELING. THE MENTAL / SENSATIONS ARE EVEN BETTER THAN / THE PHYSICAL ONES. KNOWING YOU / HAVE POWER HAS TO BE THE BIGGEST / HIGHT, THE GREATEST COMFORT. / IT IS COMPLETE SECURITY, / PROTECTION FROM HURT, WHEN / YOU DOMINATE SOMEBODY YOU'RE DOING HIM A FAVOR. HE PRAYS / SOMEONE WILL CONTROL HIM, TAKE / HIS MOND OFF HIS TROUBLES. YOU'RE / HELPING HIM WHILE HELPING / YOURSELF. EVEN WHEN YOU GET / MEAN HE LIKES IT. SOMETIMES / HE'S ANGRY AND FIGHTS BACK BUT / YOU CAN HANDLE IT. HE ALWAYS / REMEMBERS WHAT HE NEEDS. YOU / ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT.

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