After studying for a year at syracuse she moved to new york where she began attending parsons school of design in 1965. Utilizing her signature red, black, and white palette, the womans face is split along a vertical axis, showing the photographic positive and negative sides, suggesting a highly simplified inner struggle of good versus evil. Best known for laying aggressively directive slogans over blackandwhite photographs that she finds in magazines, barbara kruger developed a visual language that was strongly influenced by her early work as a graphic designer at magazines including house and garden, mademoiselle, and aperture. She is famous for her ability to blend black and white photographs with declarative captions. See more ideas about barbara kruger, conceptual art and barbara kruger art. May 07, 2020 i shop therefore i am 1987 is the work of barbara kruger.
Published to accompany an exhibition, this is the most comprehensive publication on the work of american artist barbara kruger. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in futura bold 1. Books barbara kruger photograph collage, advertising, slogans, art. Kruger attended syracuse new york university and continued her training in 1966 at new york citys parsons school of design. Barbara kruger s iconic montages juxtapose images culled from the mass media with provocative slogans and phrases. This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work.
Illustrated book with nine screenprints one with lithograph, eight lithographs, and stainless steel cover with digital clock. Thinking of you this is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of american artist barbara kruger. Thinking of you features an enlarged closeup of a found photograph, showing a safety pin pricking an index finger, which is superimposed with the phrase thinking of you. If you dont know her name, youve probably seen her work in art galleries.
She attended syracuse university before, in 1965, beginning classes in fine arts at parsons school of design. Barbara kruger untitled thinking of you whitney museum of. Barbara kruger has been active in the fields of video and audio. See more ideas about barbara kruger, art and feminist art.
Her art is terse, assertive, argumentative, pithy and always directed. Another great book due out soon from rizzoli new york has just arrived here, a monograph entitled barbara kruger, which documents the thoughtprovoking, futura bold obliquedriven work of the world famous contemporary artist. Employing media effects and strategies, kruger creates her own sexual, social, and political messages, challenging the stereotypical ways mass media influences societys notions about gender roles, social relationships. Youve seen her work, even if youve never been to one of her shows photography overlaid with coloured boxes filled with bold white futura oblique, or caps locked sans serif text that bears down at you from gallery walls and the sides and roofs of buildings. Home barbara kruger photograph collage, advertising, slogans, art. Jul 05, 2014 this has been barbara kruger s laconic way of working for more than 40 years, and it has brought her international fame. In the book thinking of you steven heller states, krugers method was influenced by reductive modernist graphic design, the kind that began somewhat idealistically but has dominated corporate identity during the postwar years, as well as the socalled big idea or creative revolution advertising style of the sixties. The book explores her work over the past thirty years, including many. Barbara krugers artwork speaks truth to power the mass media artist has been refashioning our idioms into sharpedged cultural critiques for three decadesand now brings her work to the hirshhorn.
Books to billboards, 198095, the museum of modern art, nyc. Well, you yourself lodged it as the problem of public art and. Home barbara kruger photograph collage, advertising. Her works include photographic prints on paper and vinyl, etched metal plates, sculpture, video. This has been barbara krugers laconic way of working for more than 40 years, and it has brought her international fame. Thinking of you is the catalogue of a major retrospective of barbara krugers work organized by the. The phrases in her works frequently consist of use of pronouns such as you, your, i, we, and they. This site contains a store and shop, as well as many links of interest. Most of her work consists of a photo usually black and white with text juxtaposed on it. Barbara kruger\s spatial practice \ rosalyn deutsche barbara kruger, graphic. Images, texts and social engagement in the work of barbara kruger. Barbara is a bold feminist who stands to address issues of identity, sexuality and cultural constructions of power with her work. Learn about the broad collection artist barbara kruger.
Dec 07, 1999 this is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of american artist barbara kruger. Readers flipping through the front section of the new york times on saturday, november 24, 2012, might have come across, on page a21, in large white futura type on a black background, a piece from artist barbara kruger. Barbara kruger, american artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions. Books barbara kruger photograph collage, advertising. Untitled think of me thinking of you, 20, digital print on vinyl, 96. A seminal volume celebrating the career of influential american artist barbara kruger, made in collaboration with the artist. The message is delivered in barbara kruger s preferred font, futura bold italic, and contained in.
Barbara kruger \s spatial practice \ rosalyn deutsche barbara kruger, graphic. Marrying pictures to words in a variety of media and sites, kruger raises issues of power politics, sexuality, and. Apr 20, 2010 barbara kruger has been active in the fields of video and audio installation, photography, sculpture, architecture, and graphic design, as well as in critical writing and curatorial work. See available prints and multiples, photographs, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist. Jun 06, 2010 in an interview i conducted with her for a 1999 monograph, barbara kruger. Early on she developed an interest in graphic design, poetry, writing and attended poetry readings. Barbara krugers i shop therefore i am what you should know. I shop therefore i am 1987 is the work of barbara kruger. Most of her work consists of blackandwhite photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in whiteonred futura bold oblique or helvetica ultra condensed text. Library fellows of the whitney museum of american art, new york. It contains most of her work and also seven essays and interviews.
How the glitz and excess of the 1980s shaped contemporary art. The cover features a new piece by kruger, entitled thinking of you, created especially for the catalog. She opened a giant installation of work at the hirschhorn museum in washington, dc, in 2012literally giant, as it filled the. Barbara krugers artwork speaks truth to power arts. Born on january 26, 1945 in newark, new jersey, barbara kruger is an artist who is famous for photography and collage installations. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Barbara kruger project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. It is hard to think of another noncommercial artist alive today whose work has greater iconographic power than krugers. Order, especially insofar and ideas, if you think art can change the world. Thinking of you is an amazing look into the mind of barbara kruger, an artist that challenges the viewers concepts of reality. Barbara kruger is an american conceptual artist known for her combination of type and image that conveys a direct feminist cultural critique. American conceptualpop artist barbara kruger was born in newark, new jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend syracuse university.
Barbara kruger is one of the most respected conceptual artist in america today. Henri cartierbresson, graciela iturbide, barbara kruger, sally mann, andres serrano, clarissa sligh by aperture and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A lot of her effort consists of black and white photographs overlaid with declarative captionsin whiteonred futura bold oblique. Through the appropriation of text and images, kruger confronts several important topics, such as gender identity, sex, and the medias potrayal of women. Barbara kruger has been active in the fields of video and audio installation, photography, sculpture, architecture, and graphic design, as well as in critical writing and curatorial work. Untitled thinking of you was created in 1999 by barbara kruger in conceptual art style. Barbara kruger untitled half life, 2015, vinyl, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist. The large, bold artworks of barbara kruger assimilate words and images from the deluge of contemporary mass media. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support. Untitled your body is a battleground 1989 kruger designed this print for the 1989 reproductive rights protest, the march for womens lives, in washington, d.
Thinking of you barbara kruger book barbara kruger s iconic montages juxtapose images culled from the mass media with provocative slogans and phrases. Thinking of you, she told me that patti smiths early performances at st. Could we begin by discussing the problem of public art. Barbara krugers iconic montages juxtapose images culled from the mass media with provocative slogans and phrases. Most of her work consists of a photo usually black and. Alex alberro is virginia bloedel wright associate professor of art history at barnard college. Barbara kruger was born in newark, new jersey, in 1945. Barbara kruger feminist artist the art history archive. Employing media effects and strategies, kruger creates her own sexual, social, and political messages, challenging the stereotypical ways mass media influences societys notions about gender roles, social relationships, and. Her prints from the 1980s cleverly encapsulated the era of reaganomics with tongueincheek satire. Barbara kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Barbara krugers work is neither moralistic nor judgmental. Find more prominent pieces of figurative at best visual art database.
This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of american artist barbara kruger. Thinking of you by barbara kruger, rosalyn deutsche, katherine dieckmann, steven heller, gary indiana, carol squiers, lynne tillman, ann goldstein. Read book pdf online here book 0262112507pdf download barbara kruger. Barbara is a bold feminist who stands to address issues of identity, sexuality and cultural constructions of power with. Thinking of you by barbara kruger, rosalyn deutsche, katherine dieckmann, steven heller, gary indiana, carol squiers, lynne tillman, ann goldstein edition. Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, barbara kruger, working as a graphic designer for popular magazines, gained recognition in the art world for photobased images overlaid with blocks of text in a signature color scheme of black, white, and red.
Barbara kruger revisits a 40yearold series thats as relevant as ever. She uses photographic prints, video, metals, cloth, magazines, and other materials to create pictures, collage and other works of art. She has had numerous solo and group shows and is currently professor of art in the department of art at ucla. Thinking of you by barbara kruger and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Major barbara kruger survey to debut at art institute of. Barbara kruger born january 26, 1945 is an american conceptual artist and collagist. Other barbara kruger art books include love for sale 1990 and money talks 2005. In an interview i conducted with her for a 1999 monograph, barbara kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of media and sites to raise issues of power, sexuality, and representation. After attending syracuse universitys school of visual arts, and studying art and design with diane arbus at parsons school of design in new york, kruger obtained a design job at conde nast publications. Barbara krugers art hits you like a punch to the jaw.
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