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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'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.
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.
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.
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.
Jul 14, 2022 · Barbara Kruger has changed the way the world looks — its visual language, including art, advertising and graphic design.
This is the official website of the Barbara Kruger Catalogue Raisonné, an ongoing project documenting the artist’s entire oeuvre. If you own or have owned an artwork by Barbara Kruger, please fill out and submit the collector’s form on this site, thus providing an essential contribution to the provenance research into her work.
