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Assertions

Ben Vautier

"La seul gauche va dans le
sens de l'histoire ..." – 1959

"Au commencement était le verbe" – 1992

"We are pigs" – 1995

 

 

 


Jenny Holzer: Truisms


"Money creates taste" – 1977


"Private property created crime" – 1979/1981


"Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison" – 1993/1994


"You are a victim of the rules you live by" – 1990


"Murder has its sexual side" – 1993/1994


"Abuse of power comes as no surprise"
2004

 


"True freedom is frightful" – 2006


"The future is stupid"

 

 


Extrenal Link: Holzer's Truisms

     


Barbara Kruger




Untitled ("In space no one can hear
you scream") – 1987


Untitled ("Your body is a battleground")
1989