Artist field note

Barbara Kruger

The image talks back.

Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am) by Barbara Kruger
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Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am)

1987

Descartes is rewritten as consumer identity in one instantly legible graphic blow.

The five in one idea

Kruger makes the visual grammar of advertising betray the power relations advertising usually hides.