Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

American conceptual artist whose sharp, text-driven images expose how power speaks through media, advertising, and everyday language. Combining bold slogans with black-and-white photographs. She turns the visual grammar of mass communication into critique, confronting desire, consumerism, patriarchy, and political authority. Works like Untitled (Your body is a battleground) made her a defining voice of 1980s feminist art and institutional critique, while her large-scale installations and public commissions push the question outward: who is addressed, who is controlled, and who gets to speak. Use this tag to navigate essays and references on feminist visual culture, appropriation, propaganda, and art as a direct challenge to systems of persuasion.

This tag is part of my Feminism archive.
Start from the hub: Feminism in Art Isn’t a Style: It’s a Battle Over Visibility.