Word and Image
In this reading we learn about Barbara Kruger and her career as a designer. She discovered the potential of photographs. She began to appropriate images from the media and other sources and reproduced them, then changed them to intensify their rhetoric. Kruger's work is dependent on the integration of words and images. Postmodernist maintain that nature is dead. They would have you understand that we no longer live in a world of rivers, lakes, clouds, sunsets, mountains, and wild animals. We sign by the items we choose to purchase and the clothes we wear. Postmodernist tell us that an illustion of a figure on a flat surface is an illustion, but a photograph of an X or a painting of an X on a flat surface is a real X. We learn that society empowers the subject of discourse and render the objects of the discourse powerless.
