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Untitled (We will no longer be seen and not heard)

1985
Barbara Kruger (American, born 1945) Printed by Derrière L'Etoile Studios, New York Published by Peter Blum Edition, New York
In this work Kruger invokes the aphorism “Children should be seen and not heard.” The children depicted here range from school-age youngsters to youthful adults whose gestures hint at—but do not literally make the sign language for— the words printed nearby. Some of the gestures in fact seem lewd, lending an aggressive tone to the generational and social dissent that the words and pictures suggest.

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