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. 1945 American Kruger worked as a commercial artist, designing for women's fashion magazines. In the work she is doing now, the influence of the advertising image has become part of the work itself. She uses pre-existing photos, adding text that both conflicts and augments the image. Language and image work together, referencing the manipulations of the advertising media. . - Find monographs and other publications on Kruger's political graphic art. Kruger, Barbara - Artcyclopedia - Web directory features museum collections, image archives and other resources relating to this contemporary American artist. Kruger, Barbara - Artforum - Examines the reactions to two installations created by Kruger in New York in the late '90s. Kruger, Barbara - Detroit Institute of Arts - Fine arts image archive features images of nine of this American artist's works.

Women's Studies Resources - Art and Performance - University of Iowa's Karla Tonella offers a web directory of sites relating to women in 20th century visual and performing arts. . Women Artists Archive - Salazar Library at Sonoma State University offers this database and image archive featuring over 1400 women artists from throughout art history. Women's Studies Resources - Art and Performance - University of Iowa's Karla Tonella offers a web directory of sites relating to women in 20th century visual and performing arts. .

During her career, she moved from a concentration on soft sculpture to painting to photography. Her large-scale photographic works appropriate anonymous cultural images and text and juxtapose them in unexpected ways; the resultant pieces have the effect of questioning accepted beliefs. In Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) (1989), for example, Kruger employed an oversized image of a model's face and divided it into a number of sections. Placed across the image is the phrase "your body is a battleground," by which Kruger calls into question the objectification of women and also calls to mind the ongoing struggle for women's reproductive rights. Kruger's work appears in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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