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What font does Barbara Kruger use?

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What font does Barbara Kruger use?
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...
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2010s Sculptures

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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...
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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...
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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...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

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’...
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2010s Contemporary More Prints

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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 ...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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