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Scope and Contents The introduction to this book was written by Hal Foster.Amazon.com Reviews; Library Journal: Bluntly ambiguous and confrontational, Kruger's unmistakable work evokes an urgent desire to examine and get real about the complexity of human experience in the face of reductive politics and consumer culture. She is best known for images that play with the visual language of advertising: Signature red or white banners of text stamped on black-and-white photographs blast viewers with statements like "Your body is a battleground" (over the face of a woman) or "I shop therefore I am" (in a red square held like a credit card in a large hand). These and many other equally provoking works--including her early explorations pairing photographs and text, humorous sculptures, and full-room installations--make up the first comprehensive retrospective of Kruger's work, which opened last October in Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art and will travel to the Whitney in New York later this summer....

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The massive retrospective of Kruger's work was well documented with the catalogue and was organized by Ann Goldstein. Steven Heller contributed an essay "Barbara Kruger, Graphic Designer?" in which he traced the legacy of graphic design through Russian Avant Garde, Constructivism, Futurism, Dada, new typography and Fluxus. The Sackners saw this exhibition at the L.A. MoCA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.