Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances (Writing Art)

by Barbara Kruger

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In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.

Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren't. On both an emotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich or poor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.

  • ISBN10 0262611066
  • ISBN13 9780262611060
  • Publish Date 25 July 1994 (first published 21 September 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press