Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays

Published by the artist, 1979-1982. 10 offset lithographs, 25.4 x 25.4 cm, printed black on variously coloured paper, housed in a ziploc plastic bag. This work is from an edition of unknown size. Not signed or dated. Comprises a selection of posters from the Inflammatory Essays series, which Holzer had been posting in the streets of NYC beginning in 1979. The essays address intolerance, violence, rampant consumerism, the relations between the sexes and the abusive use of power.

The sheets show moderate bends and creasing along the extremities (see pictures), the blue sheet has a vertical abrasion along the left lower margin (2 mm x 25 mm). The plastic bag features 'Jenny Holzer' handwritten in silver marker (not the artist's handwriting), a small perforation hole, and an embossed ex-libris stamp by the Dutch collector Ernst Kaars Sijpesteijn. Literature: Jenny Holzer, Waldman, pp. 62-69.