Remote Control – Power, Cultures & the World of Appearances - Hardcover

Kruger, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262111772 ISBN 13: 9780262111775

Publisher: MIT Press, 1993

Synopsis

Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren not. On both an emotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich or poor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation. Barbara Kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues of power, sex, money, difference, and death.

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Review

-- Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University

" A feast of insight into gender, sex, and contemporary culture, staged as sneak attacks filled with devastating grace, acuity, and wit." -- Carole S. Vance, Columbia University

" As a visual artist, Barbara Kruger has led the way in challenging the separation of public and private life. In "Remote Control," she is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice." -- Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University

& quot; A feast of insight into gender, sex, and contemporary culture, staged as sneak attacks filled with devastating grace, acuity, and wit.& quot; -- Carole S. Vance, Columbia University

& quot; As a visual artist, Barbara Kruger has led the way in challenging the separation of public and private life. In Remote Control, she is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice.& quot; -- Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University

"A feast of insight into gender, sex, and contemporary culture, staged as sneak attacks filled with devastating grace, acuity, and wit."--Carole S. Vance, Columbia University

"As a visual artist, Barbara Kruger has led the way in challenging the separation of public and private life. In "Remote Control", she is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice."--Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University

About the Author

Barbara Kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Her work has appeared throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers, magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs, t-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. She has written about television, film, and cultures for Artforum, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Village Voice.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262111772
• ISBN 13: 9780262111775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260