COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001058
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Work Title (display):
Untitled
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1996
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2007-12-19
Work Creator (display):
Barbara Kruger (American, born 1945)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
American conceptual artist, designer and writer. She enrolled at Parsons School of Design, Syracuse, NY, where her teachers included the photographer Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel (b 1924), a successful graphic designer and art director of Harper's Bazaar, who was particularly encouraging. When Kruger's interest in art school waned in the mid-1960s, Israel encouraged her to prepare a professional portfolio. Kruger moved to New York and entered the design department of Mademoiselle magazine, becoming chief designer a year later. Also at that time she designed book covers for political texts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she became interested in poetry and began writing and attending readings. From 1976 to 1980 she lived in Berkeley, CA, teaching and reflecting on her own art. In photograph-based images she examined the representation of power via mass-media images, appropriating their iconography and slogans and deconstructing them visually and verbally. Such works as Untitled (You Invest in the Divinity of the Masterpiece) (photograph, 1.82×1.16 m, 1982; New York, MOMA) exploit an economy of image and text to articulate and undermine the power-based relations established in such media images. Major influences cited by Kruger include films, television and the stereotypical situations of everyday life, and especially her training as a graphic designer. Her messages have been displayed in both galleries and public spaces, as well as on framed and unframed photographs, posters, T-shirts, electronic signboards, billboards and flyposters. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2008-02-06)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1986
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
text (document genre)
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text (document genre)
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Work Subject:
language (verbal communication)
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language (verbal communication)
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Work Worktype:
projections (visual works)
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projections (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Melbourne, Australia
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Art in America, 11/1997 (unconfirmed)
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Art in America, 11/1997 (unconfirmed)
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false
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Work Rights (display):
© Barbara Kruger
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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