Barbara Kruger : thinking of you, I mean me, I mean you / edited by Peter Eleey, Robyn Farrell, Michael Govan, Rebecca Morse, James Rondeau ; essays by Peter Eleey, Robyn Farrell, Michael Govan, James Rondeau, Zoé Whitley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruger, Barbara, 1945- artist.

Contributor:

Eleey, Peter, editor, contributor.

Farrell, Robyn, editor, contributor.

Govan, Michael, editor, contributor.

Morse, Rebecca, editor, writer of introduction.

Rondeau, James, editor, contributor.

Whitley, Zoé, contributor.

Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kruger, Barbara, 1945---Exhibitions.

Kruger, Barbara.

Kruger, Barbara, 1945- Works--Selections.

Kruger, Barbara, 1945-.

Words in art--Exhibitions.

Words in art.

Political art--United States--Exhibitions.

Political art.

Installations (Art).

Conceptual art.

Women artists.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Thinking of you, I mean me, I mean you

Thinking of me

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books·D.A.P., 2021.

Summary:

Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating consumer culture in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic style, Kruger probes aspects of identity, desire and consumerism that are embedded in our everyday lives. This volume traces her continuously evolving practice to reveal how she adapts her work in accordance with the moment, site and context. The book features a range of striking images--from her analogue paste-ups of the 1980s to digital productions of the last two decades, including new works produced on the occasion of the exhibition. Also featured are singular works in vinyl, her large-scale room wraps, multichannel videos, site-specific installations and commissioned works. The book also showcases how Kruger's site-specific works have been reconceived for each venue, and includes a section of reprinted texts selected by the artist. Renowned for her use of direct address and her engagement with contemporary culture, Kruger is one of the most incisive and courageous artists working today. This volume explores how her pictures and words remain urgently resonant in a rapidly changing world.00Exhibition: Art Institute of Chicago, USA (25.04.-22.08.2021) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (03.10.2021-22.05.2022) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (27.02.2022-02.01.2023).

Contents:

The work is about: on Barbara Kruger's (re)play in space / Robyn Farrell

Kiss-and-tell justice: Barbara Kruger and statuary / James Rondeau

To buy or not to buy / Michael Govan

The future is female / Peter Eleey

Enough about you. Let's talk about me: Barbara Kruger on contemporary cultures of voyeurism, stereotype, and narcissism / Zoé Whitley

Works in the exhibition

Selected texts : Introduction / Rebecca Morse ; The spam of the Earth: withdrawal from representation / Hito Steyerl ; Extrastatecraft: the power of infrastructure space / Keller Easterling ; Absurdistan / Gary Shteyngart ; The street / Georges Perec ; Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu ; "To quote," say the Kabyles, "is to bring back to life" / Andrea Fraser ; The identity artist and the identity critic / Hannah Black ; In the wake: on Blackness and being / Christina Sharpe ; Forensic architecture: violence at the threshold of detectability / Eyal Weizman ; The body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry ; American genius: a comedy / Lynne Tillman ; Again the birth control agitation / Emma Goldman ; Debt and credit / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney ; The P and I / Gary Indiana.

Notes:

The words of "You" and "Me" on subtitle, it was marked with green x's "X".

"Special syllabus section with introduction by Rebecca Morse."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Kruger : thinking of you, I mean me, I mean you at the Art Institute of Chicago (April 25-August 23, 2021) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (October 3, 2021-May 22, 2022), and at The Museum of Modern Art (July 2, 2022-January 2, 2023)"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781942884774

194288477X

OCLC:

1191456349