A CONSTANT STREAM OF PROVOCATIVE WORDS
Barbara Kruger, a text-based artist, has long worked with the reassembly of words derived from mass media contexts, drawing out her own messages from this material. In the early years of her career, her works juxtaposed images and text and received widespread attention. Since the mid-1990s, her radius of activity expanded to include site-specific installations and video works. Some years ago, she claimed in an interview that ‘what the media have done today is make a thing meaningless through its accessibility. And what I’m interested in is taking that accessibility and making meaning’. ▼1 As she here suggests, her interest in harnessing media utterance and using it in her work has always been understood in the context of the artist’s career. After going to Parsons School of Design in New
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