We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard
Associated with the Pictures Generation, Kruger emerged as a conceptual artist in the 1980s. Previous to that she worked as a successful graphic designer while teaching and exploring a range of artistic modes. This print employs a distinctive collage-like format, with bands of white text printed over red applied across a photographic image appropriated from a popular magazine. An elegantly attired woman wearing white gloves and pearls smiles while peering through opera glasses. The metallic ground seems to compress, even imprison, the figure, while the surrounding words communicate a feminist message of empowerment and agency. Kruger uses elements of mass media to probe gender issues, showing how distinct ideologies shape common phrases and images that are often seen as neutral.
Artwork Details
- Title: We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard
- Artist: Barbara Kruger (American, born Newark, New Jersey, 1945)
- Printer: Maurice Sanchez
- Publisher: Geraldine Ferraro for U.S. Senate
- Date: 1992
- Medium: Lithograph on aluminum foil collé
- Dimensions: sheet: 20 x 13 in. (50.8 x 33 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Stewart S. MacDermott Fund, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.537
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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