After moving to New York City in 1977, [Holzer] began using language as her medium and produced her first major series, Truisms— short, often provocative sentences that she printed on handbills and posted anonymously on buildings and walls around Manhattan.
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The funnily-specific all-caps Futura Bold tag is apt here, unless it is also specific to the upright version
If you want to see more purely typographic works in all caps, also check out the posts about Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays in Times Bold Italic (1979–1982) as well as her Truism stamps in Franklin Gothic (1995) and the Truisms posters in bold Helvetica (2009?).