Untitled (You Get Away with Murder)
Artist
Barbara Kruger
(American, born 1945)
Date1987
MediumChromogenic print with silkscreen lettering
DimensionsImage: 30 x 29 3/4 inches (76.2 x 75.57 cm)
Framed: 32 x 32 inches (81.28 x 81.28 cm)
Framed: 32 x 32 inches (81.28 x 81.28 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4097
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Description"You get away with murder", mounted on a boardGallery LabelIn this work, Barbara Kruger combines words and photographic images culled from news and advertising to make a pointed political commentary. Trained as a graphic designer, Kruger uses the tools of modern media culture to subvert it on its own terms. Kruger’s accusatory and feminist tone is often aimed at all manifestations of power: physical, sexual, financial and military.
Copyright© Barbara Kruger
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