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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.
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, 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.
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.
Jul 14, 2022 · Barbara Kruger has changed the way the world looks — its visual language, including art, advertising and graphic design.
Sep 19, 2021 · For more than 40 years, American artist Barbara Kruger has paired images and provocative text to expose the power dynamics of identity, desire, and consumerism.
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.
Conceptual artist Barbara Kruger (American, born January 26, 1945) is best known for her layered photographs, featuring provocative statements on issues surrounding commercial culture, feminism, and identity politics.
