JENNY HOLZER "END OF THE USA" INFLAMMATORY ESSAYS, 1982 Harold Town Canadian Art While her Truisms would gradually

While her Truisms would gradually appear on an assortment of various consumers products (T-shirts

The title and location of this drawing are noted by the artist in pencil in the lower-left corner

Yellow Mountie)

This print celebrates one of his early assemblages dating back to the late 1970’s

Custom-shaped printed mylar balloon

JENNY HOLZER "END OF THE USA" INFLAMMATORY ESSAYS, 1982 Harold Town Canadian Art While her Truisms would graduallyJenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century. Her body of work, with an emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of both pop culture and government slogan to produce commentary on global issues notably power structures and warfare. Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily