Surveillance is your busywork
Barbara Kruger
Unused subway placard poster for a project on US public transport in the 1980s. Kruger first released her ‘Surveillance’ image in 1983, it has appeared in two versions, both ‘Surveillance is your busywork’ and ‘Surveillance is their busywork’. The design has appeared in a variety of formats including billboards, as well as bus and subway placards.
Surveillance is your busywork
Barbara Kruger
- Artist
- Barbara Kruger (b.1945)
- Title
- Surveillance is your busywork
- Medium
- Original subway poster on card
- Date
- c.1984
- Size
- 11 x 28 in : 28.0 x 71.3 cm
- Literature
- Wye, Deborah, ‘Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95’
- Reference
- A19-30
- Status
- Available for sale, please enquire for price
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