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Barbara
Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945. After attending Syracuse
University, the School of Visual Arts, and studying art and design with
Diane Arbus at Parson’s School of Design in New York, Kruger obtained a
design job at Condé Nast Publications. Working for Mademoiselle
Magazine, she was quickly promoted to head designer. Later, she worked
as a graphic designer, art director, and picture editor in the art
departments at House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. This
background in design is evident in the work for which she is now
internationally renowned. She layers found photographs from existing
sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the
struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their
trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her
instantly recognizable slogans read “I shop therefore I am,” and “Your
body is a battleground." Much of her text questions the viewer about
feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire,
although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream
magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing. As well as
appearing in museums and galleries worldwide, Kruger’s work has appeared
on billboards, buscards, posters, a public park, a train station
platform in Strasbourg, France, and in other public commissions. She has
taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She
lives in New York and Los Angeles. -Source: PBS Barbara Kruger Books
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