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BARBARA KRUGER
By: Hillary
Shaull
BARBARA KRUGER
BARBARA KRUGER
 Born
 1945
 Newark, New Jersey
 Early on interest in:
 Graphic design, poetry, writing
 1964
 Syracuse University
 School of Visual Arts
 1965
 Parsons
 School of Design
 New York
 Diane Arbus
BARBARA KRUGER
 Cond’e Nast Publications
 1966
 Mademoiselle magazine
 Promoted head designer
 One year later
 Graphic designer, art director, picture editor
 House and Garden
 Aperture
 Magazine layouts
 Book jacket designs
 Freelance picture editing
 Influenced her now internationally renowned artwork
BARBARA KRUGER
 Earliest artwork
 1969
 Solo exhibitions
 Artists Space
 Feschbach Gallery
 New York
 Unsatisfied
 Detachment
 Social and political concerns
 University of California
 1976
 Teach= four years
 Later taught at:
 California Institute of Art and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BARBARA KRUGER
 1977
 Photography
 1979
 Known for
 Artwork
 Images
 mid-century American print media
 Large-scale
 Black-and-white
 collage
 Text
 Black, white, red
BARBARA KRUGER
 Artwork speaks:
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Feminism
Class
Consumerism
Stereotypes
 Pronouns
 You, I, your, we, they
 International
 Billboards
 Posters
 Public parks
BARBARA KRUGER
BARBARA KRUGER
BARBARA KRUGER
 “Perfect”
 1980
 Virgin Mary
 Submissive femininity
BARBARA KRUGER
 Anthony Janson
 Author of History of Art
 "Kruger's works are direct and evoke an immediate response.
Usually her style involves the cropping of a magazine or
newspaper image enlarged in black and white. The
enlargement of the image is done as crudely as possible to
monumental proportions. A message is stenciled on the
image, usually in white letters against a background of red.
The text and image are unrelated in an ef fort to create anxiety
by the audience that plays on the fears of society." H.W./Anthony F Janson.
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BARBARA KRUGER
 Gallery
 Words on walls, floor, ceiling
BARBARA KRUGER
 Late 1990s
 Incorporated sculpture
 Justice 1997
BARBARA KRUGER
BARBARA KRUGER
REFERENCES
 http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml
 http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbar
a-Kruger.html
 http://www.google.com/search
 http://www.librarything.com/author/jansonanthonyf