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Barbara Kruger
[American Conceptual Artist, born in 1945]
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Barbara Kruger Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Barbara Kruger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
The Artist's Twitter Account NEW!
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Barbara Kruger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
9 prints by the artist
Broad Art Foundation
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Hammer Museum, California
Untitled (You are not yourself), 1982
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Brunswick, New Jersey
Savoir C'est Pouvoir, 1989
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Untitled, 1990
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Art at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Untitled (We construct the chorus of missing persons)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Barbara Kruger
New York University Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Trance (#3264), photomontage
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Talk Like Us
Background on the artist
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
The World of Postmodern Performance
The World's Women Online
Varo Registry of Women Artists
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Barbara Kruger 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Power Pleasure Desire Disgust, 1997
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The New York Observer
"Greed Is Really Bad, Says Designer Kruger", article by Hilton Kramer
The Village Voice
"Hostile Witness", 2000 article by Jerry Saltz
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia:
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
PBS
Video selection from EGG: the arts show
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture
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Barbara Kruger
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Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger
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