BARBARA KRUGER
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger: BARBARA KRUGER. Cambridge/LA: The MIT Press, in conjunction withThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999. 4to. First edition. A fine hardcover book in printed boards as issued: cover features a new piece by Kruger, entitled Thinking of You, created especially for the catalog. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and rather uncommon. 9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 268 pages and 125 illustrations.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 most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of Barbara Kruger.
The exhibition BARBARA KRUGER was organized by Ann Goldstein, curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles., from Oct. 17, 1999 - Feb. 13, 2000 and travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art from July 13 - Oct. 22, 2000. If you saw this show, hopefully you bought one of these catalogues -- if you didnąt you dontąt know what you missed.
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.
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