Untitled (Your moments of joy have the precision of military strategy) (Original Paste-up).
1980. Unique collage work; photograph and type on paper (10.75 x 13.5 inches). One of the first instances of Barbara Kruger's pre-digital paste-up technique—developed during her time as graphic designer for both Mademoiselle magazine and the leftist book publisher Schocken—as she pivoted (in 1980) from the conceptual photography that animated projects like Picture/Readings and Hospital to a "picture practice" in which she mined the historical archive for images to reinvent through collage. These word/image syntheses would then serve as founts for the large-format gelatin silver prints, billboards, subway posters, matchbooks, postcards, etc. that would come to define her career; the present composition transformed into one of her first posters. Artwork matted into black-stained frame (19 x 22 inches), with previous gallery label to verso. An art-historical landmark.
Item #31713
Price: $85,000.00