Remote Control: Power, Cultures and the World of Appearances (Writing Art)

Remote Control: Power, Cultures and the World of Appearances (Writing Art)

by N/A

Synopsis

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. 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't. 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 with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.

$8.28

Save:$16.87 (67%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 251
Edition: New edition
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 05 Sep 1994

ISBN 10: 0262611066
ISBN 13: 9780262611060
Book Overview: 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

Media Reviews
A feast of insight into gender, sex, and contemporary culture,staged as sneak attacks filled with devastating grace, acuity, andwit. Carole S. Vance, Columbia University As a visual artist, Barbara Kruger has led the way in challengingthe separation of public and private life. In Remote Control,she is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vividcommentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded withits social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice. Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University
Author Bio
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.