Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power
by Henri Cole
On This Page
Description
The politics of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is the subject of Truth Before Power, Jenny Holzer's recent Kunsthaus Bregenz project. The complicated dialectic of decision-making and public debate, as it has unfolded through the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush, is explored in texts devoted to such issues as the international trade in arms and oil, the war on terrorism, 9/11, the FBI and CIA, and Congress's oversight of show more the intelligence community. For the most part, the installation's text has been taken verbatim from U.S. government documents--many of which were classified at the time they were written. Under the landmark Freedom of Information Act passed in 1966, all are now public record, though some remain heavily redacted. This illustrated catalogue includes selections from declassified U.S. government documents, Henri Cole's poem To the Forty-third President, and highlights from Holzer's own writing. Color photographs document Holzer's installations at the Kunsthaus and the Johanniterkirche in Feldkirch, and the eight xenon light projections staged in Vorarlberg. show lessTags
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
23+ Works 587 Members
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published nine previous collection of poetry, including Touch and Pierce the skin, and a memoir, Orphic Paris. He has received many award for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlia Prize, the Lenorc Marshall Poetry Prize, and show more the Award of Merit Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He reaches at Claremont McKenna College. show less
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 11
- Popularity
- 1,995,250
- Languages
- German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
