Collection: Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born 1945, Newark, New Jersey) is an American artist who learned her visual language as a magazine designer at Condé Nast. From around 1980 she cropped black-and-white photographs from magazines and manuals and laid across them short, accusing captions in white Futura Bold on red bands: Your body is a battleground, I shop therefore I am, We don't need another hero. The address of advertising, turned on its user, became one of the most recognisable forms in contemporary art. Her work moved from the gallery wall onto billboards, buses, shopping bags and whole buildings. She received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
The archive holds two postcards: Untitled (Love is something you fall into), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2016–17), and a Fotofolio card of Untitled (Tell us something we don't know) (1987). It also holds the group publications Verbally Charged Images (ICI, 1984) and The Power of the City / The City of Power (Whitney ISP Papers, 1992), and Women's Art Magazine.
Postcard; offset print on card stock, artwork reproduction to recto, exhibition and work details to verso · Approx. 20.3 × 10.2 cm · Washington, D.C., 2016–2017
Softcover, 75 pp., offset printed throughout in black-and-white; ISP Papers, No. 1 · 15 × 23 cm · New York, 1992
Staple-bound exhibition catalogue, green printed wrappers, 50 pp.; black-and-white and colour reproductions throughout · 14 × 21 cm · New York, 1984
Five staple-bound magazines, colour-printed covers, illustrated throughout · London, 1994
Offset print in black, white and red on postcard stock · 15 × 11 cm · New York, c. 2000
