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What font does Barbara Kruger use?
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The font that Barbara Kruger uses is Futura Bold. In 1979, the artist unveiled her first works, featuring a combination of type and image in her signature colors of black, white and red. The phrases that Kruger superimposes onto the imagery in her work are as pointed, direct and authoritative as the visuals, with the best-known examples including I Shop Therefore I Am and You Are a Captive Audience. On 1stDibs, find a range of Barbara Kruger art.
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Culture Vulture
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Debossed archival pigment print on surface Gampi Chine collé to Strathmore Bristol. Published in 2012 by Lincoln Center’s Vera List Art Project, New York, to commemorate the project’...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Giclée, Etching
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1984 (Kruger Surveillance is your Busy Work)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1984:
A historic Barbara Kruger announcement card published on the occasion of: Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, March 10-April...
Category
1980s Pop Art More Art
Materials
Offset
Barbara Kruger, I Shop Therefore I Am - Printed Paper Shopping Bag
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Hamburg, DE
Barbara Kruger (1945, American)
I Shop Therefore I Am, 1990
Medium: Photolithograph on paper shopping bag
Edition size: 9000
Dimensions: 17 5/16 x 10 3/4 in (43.9 x 27.3 cm)
Publishe...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Flag) -- Screen Print, Text Art by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Untitled (Flag), 2020
Barbara Kruger
Screenprint in colours, on cotton
Published by Artists Band Together
In the original black envelope
Sheet: 56 × 53.5 cm (22 × 21 in)
Category
2010s Feminist More Prints
Materials
Screen
Kiss
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Catalysed ink 2 colour silkscreen on mirrored polished steel
300 x 300mm
Edition of 300 + 10 APs
Artist stamp (printed), numbered
Devoted to the exploration of visual culture and im...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mirror, Screen
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Too Big to Fail Fiberboard Wall Clock
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Draper, UT
Combining images with provocative text, Kruger uses direct address—along with humor, vigilance, and empathy—to expose and undermine the power dynamics of identity, desire, and consum...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Fiberboard
