Barbara Kruger’s Postmodern Art, links to Manovich
Posted by: hmoir on: September 6, 2008
The montage, layering, and cultural slippage in these works by Barbara Kruger are evidence of 2 of Manovich’s 3 cultural modes of address: cinema and text/ the printed word. His third mode of address, the HCI, Human Computer Interface, is not evident in these artworks, perhaps because Kruger produced most of her works prior to the massive cultural influence of personal computers and related technology.
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September 7, 2008 at 11:18 pm
These really remind me of some of the vintage military recruitment posters that I have seen. A few years ago I did a research project at the archives at the Navy Yard in DC, and was able to look at their collection of Navy recruitment posters released during the Korean and Vietnam wars. They were all very bold and visually stimulating, really pulling the viewer towards them.