Profile: Barbara Kruger Affiliated Movements: Postmodernism, Pop Art
Affiliated Artists:
Sherrie Levine Andy Warhol
Jenny Holzer
Richard Prince
Robert Rauschenberg
* The placement of other artists in the same categoryis purely for didactic purposes - any number alternate criteria could result in a different choice. This list is chosen by suggesting other artists, mostly working at the same point in time and whose work might evoke similar questions in the viewer.
Barbara Kruger, You Are the Perfect Crime, 1980
The majority of Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. The text used in her work are typically declarative phrases that make use of pronouns such as "you", "I", "we", and "they". Kruger contrasts image and text to denounce sexism and the distribution of power within cultures; this is a recurrent theme in her work.
