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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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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
Barbara Kruger - War Platter LtEd hand made ceramic in bespoke box political art
By Barbara Kruger
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Kruger
War Platter, 2018
Glazed Earthenware
Artists name fired on the underside which is considered her authorized signature as she officially does not sign her works
Hand nu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
Contemporary Pop Art 'You're Right (And You Know It And So Should Everyone Else'
By Barbara Kruger
Located in White Plains, NY
'You're Right And You Know It (And So Should Everyone Else)' by Barbara Kruger features colors of green, pink, black, and white.
Rising to prominence in the 1980s, Barbara Kruger b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BARBARA KRUGER Untitled (Kiss) (2019)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Size: 17 x 14 inches ( 43.18 x 35.56 cm )
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Untitled (Kiss) (2019) marries Alvar Aalto’s classic piece of modern furniture design, Stool 60, wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Other Medium
$4,400 Sale Price
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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 1983-1986 (announcements)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1983-1986:
A set of 2 rare, historic Barbara Kruger announcement cards published on the occasion of:
- Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset

