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Jul 14, 2022 · Barbara Kruger has changed the way the world looks — its visual language, including art, advertising and graphic design.
Apr 23, 2024 · Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions. Kruger attended Syracuse (New York) University and continued her training in 1966 at New York City’s Parsons School of Design.
Jul 16, 2022 · “I try to make work that joins the seductions of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better,” Barbara Kruger has said. An incisive critic of popular culture, Kruger addresses the viewer directly as a way of exposing the power dynamics underlying identity, desire, and consumerism.
Barbara Kruger was the only child in a lower middle-class family. Kruger entered Syracuse University in 1964, but returned home one year later after the passing of her father.
Nov 11, 2021 · Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched. For decades this social critic has addressed the powerful influence of media, consumerism and politics. Her work anticipated how images and...
Since the 1970s Barbara Kruger has developed an artistic practice that powerfully combines text with both still and moving images. Her works consistently interrogate mechanisms of power as well as the cultural systems of representation that determine our daily lives and relationships.
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.
