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Jenny Holzer Temporary Tattoo Set
Some of the font choices are questionable but I totally want these Jenny Holzer temp tattoos anyway!
The Whitney Museum’s Jenny Holzer Temporary Tattoos were produced for the exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT in collaboration with the artist’s studio. Designed using select tattoo fonts by Whitney designers, the 12 text pieces were chosen from Holzer’s Survival series and produced in a print run of 200 by Temptu, a professional cosmetic firm in NYC. Laid out on a single sheet of transfer paper, they are as collectible as Holzer’s pieces of printed ephemera, such as her early sticker and newsprint projects.
Exhibiting Paintings, 1967-68 by John Baldessari
Acrylic on canvas, 67 3/4 x 56 1/2 in.
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As Dusk Began To Settle In, 1973, Ed Ruscha
egg white on acetate satin
36 H x 40 W (inches)
An Invasion of Privacy, 1973, Ed Ruscha
grass stains on raw canvas
54 H x 60 W (inches)
Just A Moment Now, 1973, Ed Ruscha
ketchup & egg yolk on canvas
20 H x 24 W (inches)
Painting by Christopher Wool
Writ large, set tight, almost always capped in a dry, standard typeface available, these artistic decendents of the public notice use banality to be seen and boldness to be read. They slow you down, disrupt you, make you feel the weight of letters and the percussive sounds of speech. Language is a medium made of sounds but also of shapes. We bend it, break it, use it to authorize or to subvert. These explorations by artists and designers play with what language does, how it works, and how it relates us to one another.
An awesome run through a small portion of text based art/design (with a large portion about Lawrence Weiner!) by Rob Giampietro
IT IS A SECRET.
TO TRY AND DECIPHER IT
MAY NOT BE THE POINT
Lawrence Weiner
This image has been stuck in my brain for days! I couldn’t find it anywhere in his book so I thought I had dreamed it. Finally I found it! (Sorry about the crappy image, it’s a photograph of a page from his book)
