Essays on Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American who works with conceptual artworks and collagist. Her work is concerned with the positioning of the social body, with the ways in which our thoughts, attitudes, and desires are determined by what society’s dictates. She produces this work to juxtapose the meaning of the image to what the audience believes...
Postmodernism is a far reaching movement which marked a shift from modernism in the mid to late 20th century. This essay will focus on postmodernism’s impact on art and cultural theory, however, that is not to say there is not an acknowledgment of its significance in other fields. As a movement, it rejects modernism due...
Today, the mass media and the discipline of graphic design, interlink frequently. Due to saturation of the media that people experience daily, it has caused a shift in perceptions of identity, as well as expectations of realism. A warp in society’s standards and what is categorised as common place are implemented by this. It is...