You’re Right (and You Know it and So Should Everyone Else)
A bold lithograph by Barbara Kruger featuring her signature style of text and image interaction with a confrontational message. The work uses stark typography and contrasting elements typical of her politically engaged practice.
- Medium
- Lithograph in colors, on smooth wove paper, the full sheet.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Editions & Works on Paper
April 16, 2024
Lot 292
Artists in conversation
Jenny Holzer
American · b. 1950
Holzer similarly uses bold text as her primary artistic medium to deliver confrontational political and social messages, often targeting power structures and gender dynamics in a graphic and immediate visual language comparable to Kruger's lithograph.
Corita Kent
American · b. 1918
Kent pioneered the integration of stark typography with bold graphic imagery in printmaking to deliver socially and politically charged messages, sharing Kruger's commitment to text based visual communication as a tool for cultural critique.
Martha Rosler
American · b. 1943
Rosler's conceptual feminist practice similarly combines appropriated imagery with direct confrontational language to challenge social and political norms, making her work philosophically and aesthetically aligned with Kruger's text and image interventions.
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