Remote Control - Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Klappentext Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questionsfocus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seducedinto a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren't. On both anemotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich orpoor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Krugeraddresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both ourcriticality and our dreams of affirmation.Barbara Kruger is an artist whose picturesand words engage issues of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Her work hasappeared throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers, magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs, t-shirts, postcards, andshopping bags. She has written about television, film, and cultures for Artforum, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. Zusammenfassung In these essays and reviews! written over the last decade! Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit! in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.

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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.

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• Autori: Barbara Kruger, Kruger Barbara
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.07.1994
• EAN: 9780262611060
• ISBN: 978-0-262-61106-0
• Pagine: 260
• Serie: Writing Art; Writing Art
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Literary essays, The arts: general topics