GEE THAT'S A GREAT IDEA

Kruger's art is famous for pushing back against consumption and its selling. In 2005, when she won the Lifetime Achievement award at the Venice Biennale, it was for work that "renews the rich critical tradition that conceives art as a political instrument to transform personal and social awareness." The Web site at the University of California, where Kruger teaches, bills her as an artist who takes photos from mass media, "which she then subverts with such text as 'Buy,' 'I shop therefore I am' and 'Your body is a battleground.' " Not exactly the stuff of major retail ad campaigns. (Or maybe it could work: "Your body is a battleground. Let CVS protect it.")

-Washington Post
Sept 5 2008