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Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

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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Photography
Conventions
Amidst
Magic
Status
Saturated
Current
Pursuits
Cultural
Hobby
Currents
Convention
Acts
Spectators
Pursuit
Hobbies
Mingling
Global
Commodity
Inception

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Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
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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.
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I worked with someone else's photos I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?
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What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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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 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 had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.
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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
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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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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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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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