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Barbara Kruger — Picture/Readings (I)
Barbara Kruger

Picture/Readings (I)

A black and white photograph is overlaid with bold, confrontational text in Kruger's signature style, using the tension between image and language to challenge power, identity, and the politics of representation. The artist's custom frame extends the work beyond the photograph itself, implicating the viewer within the piece's critical dialogue. Kruger's strategic pairing of picture and reading invites an interrogation of how meaning is constructed through visual and linguistic systems.

Medium
black and white photograph and text, in artist's frame

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Under the Influence

March 7, 2014

Estimate: $25,000$35,000

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Barbara Kruger, Picture/Readings (I)

A black and white photograph is overlaid with bold, confrontational text in Kruger's signature style, using the tension between image and language to challenge power, identity, and the politics of representation. The artist's custom frame extends the work beyond the photograph itself, implicating the viewer within the piece's critical dialogue. Kruger's strategic pairing of picture and reading invites an interrogation of how meaning is constructed through visual and linguistic systems.

Medium
black and white photograph and text, in artist's frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Feminist Art, Conceptual Art, Graphic Design Aesthetic, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Political Commentary, Photography And Text, Influential Contemporary Artist, Late 20th Century, Female Artist, Black and White

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