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I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
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Shows
Laughter
Outrageously
Power
Questions
Astute
Property
Disrupt
Hear
Certainties
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Pleasure
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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You make history when you do business.
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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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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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