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Barbara Kruger

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
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
BARBARA KRUGER

Laughter Side Want
It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Class People Support
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Illustration Stereotype Violence
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Opportunity Space
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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Add Artist Technology
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
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Art Ideas Light
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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Political Sound Term
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology
I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
BARBARA KRUGER

Labels Thinking Way
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
BARBARA KRUGER

Different Ideas Space
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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Looks Mean Vocabulary
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
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Art Doe Expression
Love is something you fall into.
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Fall Love Something
the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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Art Mean Reflection
You make history when you do business.
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Business History Make

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