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Textual Apparitions: Power, Language, And Site In The Work Of Jenny Holzer, Peter Holden Fox
Textual Apparitions: Power, Language, And Site In The Work Of Jenny Holzer, Peter Holden Fox
Pomona Senior Theses
Jenny Holzer's text-based projects have attracted the attention of critics, historians, and curators from Des Moines to Dresden. An understanding of the complex interplay between language, gender, power, and site within Holzer's work demonstrates how a singular interpretive approach is insufficient for discussing the multitude of meanings her projects produce. Perhaps most significantly, a fresh analysis of Holzer's work and critical reactions to it challenges the story of modernism and postmodernism and the relationship between these two terms.