
Tears
1970
Barbara Kruger's 'Tears' from 1970 exemplifies her critical approach to visual culture. The work likely combines text and image to interrogate meaning and emotion.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
May 15, 2019
More by Barbara Kruger
Artists in conversation

Jenny Holzer
American · b. 1950

Holzer similarly uses text as a primary artistic medium to challenge social and political norms, embedding provocative language within visual contexts to question power structures and emotional experience.

Martha Rosler
American · b. 1943

Rosler shares Kruger's feminist conceptual approach and use of photography combined with text to interrogate media representations of women and the construction of cultural meaning in the 1970s.

Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954

Sherman's photographic work critically examines visual culture, identity, and emotional representation through a feminist lens, engaging deeply with how images construct and manipulate meaning around gender and feeling.
Start the Discussion
Request access to join the discussion