Untitled ( Who will write the history of tears?)
Artist
Barbara Kruger
(American, born 1945)
Date1991
MediumPhotographic silkscreen on vinyl
Dimensions60 x 148 in. (152.4 x 375.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineFoundation purchase with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The John E. Galvin Charitable Trust, and The Modern Art Council, 1991
Object numberMF91.1
Barbara Kruger's monumental combinations of word and image are derived from Dada, as well as from propaganda and the advertising medium that she originally studied. Kruger's confrontational and accusatory work is meant to cause aesthetic disgust and unease and she purposefully poses social and moral questions that are difficult to understand, much less answer.
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