Author: Kruger, Barbara et al.
Title: Thinking of You
Description: Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1999. Hardcover. BW photographic boards with white lettering in red blocks. Glossy, red end papers. 268 pp. with a few color but mostly bw images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibitions held 1999-2000. "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. This book beautifully presents her work and frames a friendly investigation of its meanings and power in a group of essays that home in on the unsettling jolt her work delivers. It is an excellent and affordable overview of the work of an important contemporary artist. Highly recommended for all libraries. -Rebecca Miller, "Library Journal" Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc." Kruger's cover illustration, Thinking of You, was created specifically for this catalog. Good+, ex art library with no extyerior labels, light ownership stamps to top and bottom text b locks, label and check-out slip inside rear cover. Shows light wear and very solid, noce shelf appeal.m1 .

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