Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Photographs; Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Signs (Notices); Collages; Language; Slogans; Graphic design; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Advertisements; Advertising; Publicity; Social aspects; Power (Social sciences);...
Top left: We Get Excited [Exploded] Because They Have Money and God in Their Pockets, 1985, poster, New York City; Top center: Surveillance is Your Busywork, bus placard for Nexus project, Atlanta, 1985, photograph courtesy Gerald F. Jones,...
One-story wooden building with a large metal awning at the corner of Eighteenth and Southgate (now Garland), Louisville, Kentucky. Building appears to be a cafe or saloon due to a sign advertising Frank Fehr's beer and a window advertising Fortuna...
Tall three-story brick building with long windows on the second floor at the corner of Fifteenth and Southgate (now Garland), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor business is Martin Clark Cafe. Two men stand in the doorway. Cafe seems to be...