We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard
Barbara Kruger American
Printer Maurice Sanchez American
Publisher Geraldine Ferraro for U.S. Senate American
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Associated with the Pictures Generation, Kruger emerged as a conceptual artist in the 1980s. Previous to that she worked as a successful graphic designer while teaching and exploring a range of artistic modes. This print employs a distinctive collage-like format, with bands of white text printed over red applied across a photographic image appropriated from a popular magazine. An elegantly attired woman wearing white gloves and pearls smiles while peering through opera glasses. The metallic ground seems to compress, even imprison, the figure, while the surrounding words communicate a feminist message of empowerment and agency. Kruger uses elements of mass media to probe gender issues, showing how distinct ideologies shape common phrases and images that are often seen as neutral.
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