Barbara Kruger, Love for Sale. The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger. Text by Kate Linker. New York: Harry N. Abrahams, 1990. Hardback, 96 pp. 32 x27 cm. 1st edition. 1st printing.
Throughout her career, visual artist Barbara Kruger has been decoding and criticizing power relations, gender, race and identity stereotypes, and dominant ideology as it materializes in popular culture and public space.
Kruger's modus operandi has remained consistent, A large part of her work consists of appropriated black-and-white photographs, overlaid with sloganesque statements reminiscent of agitprop and not unlike Jenny Holzer's Truisms. Text are mostly white on red in Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed.
Barbara Kruger's work has appeared throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers, magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs, T-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. Kruger has written about television, film, and culture for Artforum, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Village Voice.
A very good copy with a fine interior: book block in fine condition. Clean, bright pages. Tight binding. Glossy cover showing some rubbing. Spine sunned. Upper left corner of front cover and upper right corner of back cover faded (see pictures).