Barbara Kruger
American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was
born in Newark in 1945. Early on she established an interest in graphic design.
She studied with fellow artists/photographers Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel,
who presented Kruger to other photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures. Not
long after she started to work at Mademoiselle magazine as an entry-level
designer. Further on she worked as a graphic designer, art director, and image
editor in the art departments at House and Garden, Aperture, and did magazine
layouts, book jacket designs.
Her period of background in design is marked in
the work for which she is now renowned.
Kruger was influenced by her years working as a graphic
designer. In recent years Barbara Kruger has extended her aesthetic project,
creating public installations of her work in galleries, museums, municipal
buildings, train stations, and parks, as well as on buses and billboards around
the world. Walls, floors, and ceilings are covered with images and texts. Since
the late 1990s, Kruger has incorporated sculpture into her on going critique of
modern American culture. Much of her work engages of found photographs from present
sources with aggressive text as well her imagery and text including criticism
of sexism and circulation of power within cultures.
Babra Kruga available at: http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml
Babra Kruga available at: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/feminism/kruger/kruger.htm
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