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six. Barbara Kruger: appropriation and subversion. Found sources in Art. Dada: Duchamp’s ready-mades Mass-produced objects chosen at random “Anti-art” Art trouvé Found objects considered as art Musique concrète Recorded sounds from everyday life edited together Modern appropriation
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six Barbara Kruger:appropriation and subversion
Found sources in Art • Dada: Duchamp’s ready-mades • Mass-produced objects chosen at random • “Anti-art” • Art trouvé • Found objects considered as art • Musique concrète • Recorded sounds from everyday life edited together • Modern appropriation • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band • Hip-hop
Irony • A statement or action whose apparent meaning is underlain by a contrary meaning • “True” meaning subverts the intended or overt meaning • Rhetorical or verbal irony • This isn’t an example of irony • Structural irony • Aka “irony of situation”, “tragic irony”, “dramatic irony” • Oedipus seeking the murderer of his father
Barbara Kruger, Untitled(I will not become what I mean to you), 1983
Barbara Kruger • Started as designer photo editor for Condé Nast Publications • Vanity Fair • WIRED • Vogue • SELF • Modern Bride • Selected photos, wrote short, pithy captions, etc. • Worked for 12 years
Barbara Kruger • Quit and became an artist • FormWorks almost entirely with • Recaptioning of found sources • The colors black, white and red • Content • Power • Culture • Domestic violence • Abortion
Barbara Kruger, We don't need another hero, 1987, photo silkscreen/vinyl, 109 x 210
'Barbara Kruger's on going project is to provoke questions about power and its effect on the human condition: to investigate the way power is constructed, used and abused. In her works, which have become the demonstrative visual icons of the 1980s and 1990s, power is interrogated and interpreted through the social, economic and political arrangements which motor the life impulses of love, hate, sex and death.' Juliana Engberg