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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
Barbara Kruger
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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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