Remote Control
Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23129486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Morra, Barbara Kruger |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 435 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8529 • E-ISSN: 1540-6245 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/430982 |
| OpenAlex | W1565110309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
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.
Art · Control (management) · Geography · Physics · Power (physics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Military History and Strategy · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2021 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |