War paintings
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War paintings
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, c2015
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"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the Exhibition Jenny Holzer, War Paintings at Museo Correr, May, 2015"
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Jenny Holzer (born 1950) became known in the 1980s with her billboards, projections and LED installations that often used text to deliver social critique. <i>Jenny Holzer: War Paintings</i> is a significant departure from the works for which she is known. It draws from declassified and US government documents concerning the War on Terror and military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Holzer transforms these redacted documents--memoranda, planning maps, diplomatic communiques, interrogation records, autopsy reports and the handwritten <i>cris de coeur</i> of detainees themselves--into ravishing silkscreened and handpainted oil-on-linen paintings several times their original size. Holzer embarked on the war paintings in an effort to end the normalization of torture. This volume compiles over 200 images--full-bleed reproductions and installation views--of some of the most important political art of our time.
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