We Will Not Become What We Mean to You

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Artist: Barbara Kruger
Date: 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Dimensions: 184 × 121 × 5 cm (72 1/2 × 48 × 2 in.)
Collection: Contemporary Art
Culture: United States
Credit line: Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow

ART MOVEMENTS

Contemporary Art Feminist art Postmodernism

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THE ARTIST

Barbara Kruger

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