You're Right And You Know It

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Barbara Kruger
You're Right And You Know It
2010

Name: You're Right And You Know It
Brand: Barbara Kruger
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

$7,425List Price

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Barbara Kruger You're Right And You Know It 2010 Lithograph 9 x 24 in. Edition of 200 Pencil signed, dated and numbered on verso Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Condition: This work is in excellent condition. Frame: This work is framed in a wood frame. ABOUT THIS WORK: Kruger applies semiotics to her work as an analysis of popular culture. Much of her work is not just a simple comment on the nature of mass media culture, rather her work describes the relationship between the concepts of elite and popular culture. Barbara Kruger investigates the social relations of power through the power of the word. She pairs these words with a photograph. Both the photograph and the words are meant to challenge the viewer. Here, she juxtaposes the terrified gaze of a woman with text that is undeniably self-assured. The full text reads YOU’RE RIGHT AND YOU KNOW IT AND SO SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE, an assertion which is paradoxical to the stylized image of fear in the background. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions in white-on-red. After attending Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, and studying art and design with Diane Arbus at Parson’s School of Design in New York, Kruger obtained a design job at Condé Nast Publications. Working for Mademoiselle Magazine, she was quickly promoted to head designer. Later, she worked as a graphic designer, art director, and picture editor in the art departments at House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. This background in design is evident in the work for which she is now internationally renowned. She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her instantly recognizable slogans read I shop therefore I am, and Your body is a battleground. Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing. Kruger applies semiotics to her work as an analysis of popular culture. Much of her work is not just a simple comment on the nature of mass media culture, rather her work describes the relationship between the concepts of elite and popular culture. She investigates the social relations of power through the power of the word. She pairs these words with a photograph, and both the photograph and the words are meant to challenge the viewer.

Creator:
Barbara Kruger (1945, American)
Creation Year:
2010
Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
Edition of 200Price: $7,425
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
This work is in excellent condition.
Gallery Location:
Miami, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU53831662063

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Barbara Kruger

Rising to prominence in the 1980s, iconic conceptual artist Barbara Kruger pioneered a combination of type and image in her signature colors of black, white and red that continues to captivate audiences and posit a forceful feminist critique of media and politics.

Kruger examines social issues and cultural forces like sexism and consumerism in her typically large-scale, widely imitated work, which sees her layering terse chunks of text in fonts such as Futura Bold Oblique over found black and white mass media photographic images. Radical and stimulating, her collages draw on her background as a commercial graphic designer for magazines at Condé Nast as well as her albeit brief time as a student at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where Kruger studied under artists such as Diane Arbus.

Kruger’s use of straightforward, accessible language to make powerful statements recalls advertising slogans or magazine headlines — by employing the structure of the very thing she is critiquing, she subverts that specific medium’s reach and meaning.

The phrases that Kruger superimposes onto the imagery in her work are as pointed, direct and authoritative as the visuals, with best-known examples including I Shop Therefore I Am and You Are a Captive Audience. The artist is also a staunch feminist, using her work to make overt political statements such as in Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), which was initially created in 1989 to promote a women’s march in Washington, D.C., aimed at antiabortion legislation. By using “you” and “I,” Kruger invites viewers into the piece and forces them to reflect on their own position in society as well as how they interact with one another in contemporary life. In an increasingly politicized era that finds us engulfed in imagery like never before, her art is more urgent and arresting than ever.

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