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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. [2]
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.
The Legacy of Barbara Kruger. Barbara Kruger's work has an integral place in the history of feminist, postmodern, and conceptual art. Connected with this, Kruger dissects contemporary culture in her unique combinations of image and text, often targeting multiple oppressions or hypocrisies.
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 14, 2022 · Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words. She created some of the most memorable works of her era. Now the activist-artist is back with two immersive shows, at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery. Share...
Jul 16, 2022 · Exhibition. Jul 16, 2022–Jan 2, 2023. “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.
Artist Bio. Barbara Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey. Kruger briefly attended Syracuse University, then Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she studied with artists and photographers Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus. Kruger worked in graphic design for Condé Nast Publications at Mademoiselle magazine, and was promoted to ...
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