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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.

Barbara Kruger

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
BARBARA KRUGER

Looks Mean Vocabulary
I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER

Buying Life Lifestyle
I have no complaints, except for the world.
BARBARA KRUGER

Complaints Except World
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
BARBARA KRUGER

Delusion Drag Surround Yourself
Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
BARBARA KRUGER

Art School Teaching
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
BARBARA KRUGER

Bucks Moving Thinking
It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER

Class People Support
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
BARBARA KRUGER

Add Artist Technology
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
BARBARA KRUGER

Moments Recognition Trying
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
BARBARA KRUGER

Battle People Thinking
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Different Mean
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Rehabilitation Tactics
I’ve always been very tied to language.
BARBARA KRUGER

Always Language Tied
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
BARBARA KRUGER

Made Real Technology
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist People Thinking

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.

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