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The main focus of Jenny Holzer's work is on the use of ideas in public space. Street posters are her favorite medium, but she also makes use of a variety of other media, including LED signs, plaques, benches, stickers, T-shirts and the World Wide Web.

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• Truisms (1979-) [1] is probably her most well-known work. Holzer has compiled a series of statements and aphorisms ("truisms") and has publicized them in a variety of ways: listed on street posters, in telephone booths and even, in 1982, on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards.
• Inflammatory Essays (1978-79), in which she brought texts by Trotsky, HitlerAdolf Hitler ( April 20, 1889 April 30, 1945) was the Fuhrer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. In that capacity he was Chancellor of Germany, head of government, and head of state, ruling as a, MaoMao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party of China from 1935 to 1976. Maoism, an ideology derived from Mao Zedong's teachings The card game Mao Mao, the Lunar deity of Persian mythology monoamine oxidase, MAO a city in Chad; see Mao, Chad a city in the Do, LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: ), original name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( Russian: ) ( April 10 ( April 22, New Style), 1870 January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the and Emma GoldmanEmma Goldman ( June 27, 1869 May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her radical libertarian and feminist writing and speeches. She immigrated to the United States at sixteen and was later deported to Russia, where she witnessed some event onto the streets.
• Living Series (early 1980s), using more monumental media such as bronze plaques and billboards.
• Survival Series (1983-1985), with more militant aphorisms.
• Under a Rock
• Lament
• Child Text, a piece on motherhood for the 1990 Venice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes places once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. History The very first Biennale was held in 1895; during the first ed.
• Please Change Beliefs (1995) [2], created for the internet artInternet art is art or, more precisely, cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium and, more importantly, its subject, much like video art uses video as its medium but is also very much about video, although many artists working wit gallery adaweb [3].