Barbara Kruger
Contributors: Whitney Museum of American Art (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780914357704
Subjects: Biography / Autobiography; Art; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Design styles: from c 1900 -; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Individual artists; USA; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; 1945-; Exhibitions; Kruger, Barbara,
Description: This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of media and sites to raise issues of power, sexuality, and representation. Her works include photographic prints on paper and vinyl, etched metal plates, sculpture, video, installations, billboards, posters, magazine and book covers, T-shirts, shopping bags, postcards, and newspaper op-ed pieces.This book serves as the catalog for the first major one-person exhibition of Kruger's work to be mounted in the United States. The book, designed by Lorraine Wild in collaboration with the artist, contains texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Katherine Dieckmann, Ann Goldstein, Steven Heller, Gary Indiana, Carol Squiers, and Lynne Tillman on subjects associated with Kruger's work, including photography, graphic design, public space, power, and representation, as well as an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and checklist of the exhibition. The cover features a new piece by Kruger, entitled Thinking of You,created especially for the catalog.
Table of contents: title: The War at Home
pagenum: 8
authors: Gary Indiana; title: Bring in the World
pagenum: 24
authors: Ann Goldstein; title: Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger's Spatial Practice
pagenum: 76
authors: Rosalyn Deutsche; title: Barbara Kruger, Graphic Designer?
pagenum: 108
authors: Steven Heller; title: "Who Laughs Last?": The Photographs of Barbara Kruger
pagenum: 140
authors: Carol Squiers; title: Barbara Kruger, Gal of the People
pagenum: 168
authors: Katherine Dieckmann; title: Interview with Barbara Kruger
pagenum: 188
authors: Lynne Tillman; title: Director's Statement
pagenum: 245
authors: Jeremy Strick; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 246
authors: Ann Goldstein; title: Exhibition Chronology
pagenum: 249; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 255; title: Checklist of the Exhibition
pagenum: 265; title: Photo Credits
pagenum: 268