num_pages: 251
description: In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren't. On both an emotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich or poor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.
language: English
title: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
titlecomplete: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
genres: Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Feminism, Art
ratings_count: 128
publisher: MIT Press