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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.

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just works. I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
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