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. The exhibition was organized by Ann Goldstein, curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles October 17, 1999-February 13, 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art New York City July 13-October 22, 2000

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You

Arts & Photography

Gary Indiana

STEVEN HELLER

Ann Goldstein

Barbara Kruger

Lynne Tillman

Rosalyn Deutsche

Katherine Dieckmann

Carol Squiers

Individual Artists

The MIT Press & The Museum of Contemporary Art

The artist Barbara Kruger was an important thinker on postmodern and feminist issues. This survey includes her most famous pieces and discusses the ways in which her art challenges social values and the nature of art-making, and uses images appropriated from various sources to capture attention.

Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger

Biographies & Memoirs

Kate Linker

Arts & Literature

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Love for Sale

Harry N. Abrams

Barbara Kruger, Pre Digital 1980-1992 is a fully illustrated catalogue featuring 44 color plates of Kruger's intimately scaled artworks which explore a unique stage of her career. All of the works were created before the widespread use of digital imagery and vary in sizes no larger than 11 x 13 inches. They are composed of images and texts from the media altered in order to transform their original visual and conceptual meanings. A negative of the works was then produced and used to make enlarged version of these initial "paste-ups."

Barbara Kruger, Pre Digital 1980-1992

Skarstedt Gallery

A seminal volume celebrating the career of influential American artist Barbara Kruger, made in collaboration with the artist. Bold, philosophical, radical, subversive: the art of Barbara Kruger focuses on decoding the social-psychological messages embedded in popular culture. Marrying pictures to words in a variety of media and sites, Kruger raises issues of power politics, sexuality, and representation. Borrowing slogans and phrases from the lexicon of thought, and using the potent weapon of pure graphics, Kruger’s art offers up powerfully distilled messages of word and image. This beautifully designed book is the most comprehensive volume on Kruger’s body of work to date. The book explores her work over the past thirty years, including many previously unpublished works. Aptly designed to embody a manifesto-like aesthetic, the book also presents bold spreads of the artist’s large-scale works and public projects, which confront such controversial and weighty topics as abortion, consumerism, spirituality, and identity.

Cornerhouse Publications

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