APW: Barbara Kruger (1288 hits)
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Submitted by gravitas (View user info) at 2007-01-24 21:05:12 EST
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945. After attending Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, and studying art and design with Diane Arbus at Parson's School of Design in New York, Kruger obtained a design job at Condé Nast Publications. Working for Mademoiselle Magazine, she was quickly promoted to head designer. Later, she worked as a graphic designer, art director, and picture editor in the art departments at House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications.
This background in design is evident in the work for which she is now internationally renowned. She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her instantly recognizable slogans read "I shop therefore I am," and "Your body is a battleground." Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing.
As well as appearing in museums and galleries worldwide, Kruger's work has appeared on billboards, buscards, posters, a public park, a train station platform in Strasbourg, France, and in other public commissions. She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-07-30 16:32:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2007-07-03 13:50:57 EDT (#)
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I guess i missed this...
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2007-07-03 13:39:34 EDT (#)
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cool
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-03 13:24:57 EDT (#)
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+2 one of my favourite artists for years.
and her retrospective at MOCA was fucking BRILLIANT
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-06-21 12:00:39 EDT (#)
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'roids gone wild
Submitted by sweetkisses (user info) at 2007-06-21 11:39:52 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Dirty_Girl (user info) at 2007-06-21 10:19:38 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by andkon (user info) at 2007-06-21 08:57:06 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by sorento35 (user info) at 2007-06-21 08:52:29 EDT (#)
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Fucking idiot.
Submitted by Matin_Morte (user info) at 2007-06-20 23:17:37 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Sydney (user info) at 2007-06-20 22:52:47 EDT (#)
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Die, faggot.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2007-02-22 10:09:44 EST (#)
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I thought this was going to be about freddie Kruger's mother.
I need to score me one of those don't be a jerk posters.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:06:29 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-01-25 09:14:36 EST (#)
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Sweet.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2007-01-25 09:08:46 EST (#)
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Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2007-01-25 05:50:46 EST (#)
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Cool stuff , gotta look into that !
Submitted by locksly (user info) at 2007-01-25 04:33:17 EST (#)
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This is great, I am actually going to read up on her.
Thankyou!
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:51:28 EST (#)
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Didn't read it. Fucking server's down again. +2 for everybody. FTW.
Submitted by phauna (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:19:23 EST (#)
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+2 for opinionated women, i like thos types.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:42:54 EST (#)
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Don't be a jerk, guy.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:39:39 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:38:12 EST (#)
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cool stuff
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:37:20 EST (#)
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GO AY PEE DOUBLEYOO WOO
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:26:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by gravitas (user info) at 2007-01-24 21:06:17 EST (#)
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