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Barbara Kruger – Subverting Subversion

September 18, 2013 · by Ian Rogers · in Art History, Art News, Conceptual Art

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Her work takes the visual language of mass commercial communication and flips it. Basically, she appropriates commercial photographic imagery and overlays it with philosophical slogans that run counter to the imagery. This inversion…

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