- Hardcover: 251 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (Sep 21 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262111772
- ISBN-13: 978-0262111775
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Kruger, an artist whose subversively direct works address such themes as power, sexual politics and money, is mostly on target as a social and cultural critic in these essays, reviews and prose poems originally published in Artforum , Esquire , the Village Voice and elsewhere during the last 14 years. She forcefully describes TV as a thought-control device, a powerful sedative that aims to satisfy viewers' needs for order, control and connection; and her critique is buttressed by a sophisticated analysis of documentaries, courtroom dramas and an array of popular series. Her brilliant movie reviews capture the creative ferment of experimental and international filmmaking and expose the pretensions of mainstream fare. The big and small screen predominate in this miscellany, but Kruger also has much to say on radio host Howard Stern ("crazily funny" but also an embodiment of "dangerously unexamined populism"), Andy Warhol, work, money and photography.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Like her work as a visual artist, Kruger's essays, published in such journals as Artforum and the Village Voice, are about the ideological messages encoded in popular culture and how those messages convey certain attitudes toward the roles of women and minorities. Probing such seemingly innocuous television programming as "L.A. Law," "Entertainment Tonight," "The Home Shopping Club," "Good Morning, America," and the Iran-Contra hearings, as well as more subversive cultural products such as the independent films of Yvonne Rainer and Chantal Ackerman, Howard Stern's radio show, and the work of Andy Warhol, Kruger deconstructs media and art and shows how words and images manipulate and obscure meaning as they are force-fed down our throats. Kruger is an important contemporary artist, and her writing, while somewhat dense and polemical, is worthy of examination. Benjamin Segedin
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Remote Control by Barbara Kruger, Sep 25 2000
By Nate Lacktman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances (Hardcover)
Kruger's work is some of her best yet! She is, without a doubt, the most effective and AFFECTIVE artist of our time. Her art aggressively attacks the viewer, as do her written words. She takes control, and forces the reader to reflect on his or her position/experience/actions in life. Influential and powerful, radical, aggressive, and moving, the book is all put together with wit, dark humor, and poetic grace. An outstanding piece of work from an outstanding, talanted artist!-Nathaniel Lacktman
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Interesting book and good seller, Dec 3 2011
By A. Ullman - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances (Paperback)
Very interesting book for a visual artist to write, I share the same opinion that she does. I love her artwork too. No problem with the seller.
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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i really want to like it, Oct 20 2005
By just some "guy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances (Paperback)
i really do, but it's so academic at times i just can't get into it. it's not that i'm not an intelligent guy because i am, and it's not that i don't appreciate kruger's work because i do. it's simply that what i most love about kruger is the accessability of her work, and this book was very inaccessable at times. i'm glad i have it in my collection, but i wouldn't call it an "enjoyable" read. it's really more work than fun. i guess it depends on your feelings about kruger if the work is worth it. this is an important book for an art historian or cultural critic, but i would not recomend it as an introduction to kruger.
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