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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
Born: Jan 26, 1945
About Art People Think Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. Barbara Kruger
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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie. Barbara Kruger
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. Barbara Kruger
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too. Barbara Kruger
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. Barbara Kruger
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. Barbara Kruger
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives. Barbara Kruger
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Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. Barbara Kruger
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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. Barbara Kruger
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different. Barbara Kruger
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. Barbara Kruger
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. Barbara Kruger
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. Barbara Kruger
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. Barbara Kruger
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. Barbara Kruger
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. Barbara Kruger
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. Barbara Kruger
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. Barbara Kruger
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. Barbara Kruger
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. Barbara Kruger
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. Barbara Kruger
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The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. Barbara Kruger
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. Barbara Kruger
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job. Barbara Kruger
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