Barabra Kruger 2
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Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerSpeaking the Truth into PicturesSpeaking the Truth into Pictures
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Background
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Growing up & starting out
• Born 1945 in Newark New Jersey
• Only child
• Attended Syracuse University & Parson’s School of design, where she studied with Diane Arbus
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Artistic Journey
• Started designing ads for Mademoiselle Magazine at 22, promoted to head design within one year
• First art exhibited work was fiber arts, “women’s work”
• Became involved in New York poetry scene, publishing and performing her work in poetic society
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Moving towards montage...
• 1976: Left New York loft for California, where she stopped all artmaking for one full year
• “[I was trying to] rethink my connections to my work, to the art world, and most importantly, to the games and relations that congeal, disperse and make the world go round.”
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• When Kruger returned to her work, she took up the camera, capturing images of California residences, which she published with accompanying narratives written about the people living there.
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The Work
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Stealing images to tell the Truth
• Work in fashion provided the skills for choosing and cropping images while also providing fodder for a mission in dispelling lies visual media passes off for reality
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• Kruger’s work focuses on taking well-recognized images and adding text with an accusatory “you” or non-identified pronouns as commentary on the original visual message
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Themes
• Politics
• Feminism
• Commodity Fetish
• Rhetoric of realism
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“I’m interested in how identities are constructed,
how stereotypes are formed, how narratives sort
of congeal and become history.”