1. Barbara Kruger: appropriation and subversion
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Barbara Kruger: appropriation and subversion

3. Found sources in Art Dada: Duchamp’s ready-mades Art trouvé
Mass-produced objects chosen at random
“Anti-art”
Art trouvé
Found objects considered as art
Musique concrète
Recorded sounds from everyday life edited together
Modern appropriation
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Hip-hop

4. Irony
A statement or action whose apparent meaning is underlain by a contrary meaning
“True” meaning subverts the intended or overt meaning
Rhetorical or verbal irony
This isn’t an example of irony
Structural irony
Aka “irony of situation”, “tragic irony”, “dramatic irony”
Oedipus seeking the murderer of his father

5. Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I will not become what I mean to you), 1983

6. Barbara Kruger
Started as designer photo editor for Condé Nast Publications
Vanity Fair
WIRED
Vogue
SELF
Modern Bride
Selected photos, wrote short, pithy captions, etc.
Worked for 12 years

7. Barbara Kruger Quit and became an artist
Form Works almost entirely with
Recaptioning of found sources
The colors black, white and red
Content
Power
Culture
Domestic violence
Abortion

9. Barbara Kruger, We don't need another hero,
1987, photo silkscreen/vinyl, 109 x 210

10. Barbara Kruger, You Substantiate Our Horror, 1983

14. 'Barbara Kruger's on going project is to provoke questions about power and its effect on the human condition: to investigate the way power is constructed, used and abused. In her works, which have become the demonstrative visual icons of the 1980s and 1990s, power is interrogated and interpreted through the social, economic and political arrangements which motor the life impulses of love, hate, sex and death.'
Juliana Engberg