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Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (Born 1945) is active/lives in New York, California.  Barbara Kruger is known for Caligra-photo-montage, conceptual, feminist themes.

Feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, now lives in Los Angeles and New York City. She attended Syracuse University in 1965, the School of Visual Arts, New York City, and studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York with graphic artist Marvin Israel and the famous photographer Diane Arbus.

She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She received from the state of New York, a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982, and a New York Foundation on the Arts fellowship in 1985.

Barbara Kruger exhibited in three Whitney Biennials, 1973, 1983, 1987, and London's Institute of Contemporary Art in 1983. Her art is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Facts about Barbara Kruger

   Publications  Book References:  48
Magazine References:  19

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19 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Barbara Kruger
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction Network Executive December 2004 Dannatt, Adrian Yes
Art & Auction Keep It Moving People November 2004 Spiegler, Marc Yes
ARTFORUM Pop Since 1949 October 2004 Alloway, L & Whiteley, N (intr Yes
ARTFORUM Spiritual America: David Deitcher o October 2004 Deitcher, David Yes
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
ARTFORUM Electoral Collage September 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Time Capsules 1986-1990 April 2003 Rimanelli, David Yes
ARTnews Who Are the Great Women Artists? March 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
ARTFORUM Time Capsules 1980-1985 March 2003 Rimanelli, David No
Art & Auction Role Models March 2003 Wolmer, Bruce Yes
Art & Auction Art & Auction Power 2002 January 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Art in America Front Page November 2002 Editors, Art in America No
Art-Talk Art News November 2002 Editors, Art-Talk No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions March 2001 Editor, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Online Market: Hit or Miss January 2001 Thomas, Kelly Devine Yes
Art & Antiques On View November 1999 Editors Yes
Art in America The Art of Public Address November 1997 Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols Yes
ARTnews Light, Canvas, Action December 1994 Gardner, Paul Yes
48 Book References for Barbara Kruger
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 O'Brian, John (Editor) Camera Atomica (Art Gallery of Ontario) 304 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2002 Townsend, Chris Rapture Art's Seduction by Fashion
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
2000 Goldstein, Ann Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Larsen, Lars et all Art at the Turn of the Millennium 561 Yes
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann Icons of Art The 20th Century 216 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Dawtry, Liz (others) Investigating Modern Art 185 Yes
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Hansen, Trudy (others) Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 248 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Berger, Maurice Ciphers of Identity
(Exhibition catalog)
44 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1993 Gardner, James Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc) 227 No
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Day, Holliday T Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1991 Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)
172 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Livingstone, Marco Pop Art A Continuing History 271 Yes
1990 Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture
(Exhibition catalog)
460 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Stein, Donna Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988
(Exhibition catalog)
72 No
1988 Beckett, Wendy Contemporary Women Artists 128 Yes
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 300 Yes
1988 Siegel, Jeanne (editor) Artwords 2 Discourse on the Early 80s 319 No
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1987 Frank, Peter/Michael McKenzie New, Used and Improved Art for the 80's 159 Yes
1987 Wallis, Brian (editor) Blasted Allegories An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists 431 No
1986 Cameron, Dan Art and It's Double Panorama of Art in New York 149 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)
269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Freeman, Phyllis New Art 207 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
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