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i shop therefore i am kruger::By age twentytwo she was chief designer of mademoiselle.
During the next ten years she also worked as a teacher, a freelance photography editor, and a designer for book jackets.
Inspired by punk poet patti smith, kruger began giving readings of her poetry in 1974.
She also found a group of young artists, including eric fischi and david salle, who treated female artists as equals.
In 1977 , with the help of an art grant, kruger began a disquieting new series of works that combined photographs and cryptic bits of text.
By 1979 she had found the form she would use for her work throughout the next decade: superimposing pieces of type directly on top of photographs she had appropriated from magazines.
Kruger first attracted serious attention in a 1981 group show that also featured works by keith haring and fellow word artist jenny holzer.
In 1983 a text piece she created for the spectacolor billboard in times square wryly commented on masculine obsession with sex and war.
Many critics grumbled that her work made more sense as advertisement or poster art than as expensive gallery pieces.
It was the most effective packaging device.
The movie critic for artforum since 1982, she became television critic for the magazine in 1987.
Her work in the 1990s continued to be political, from aids posters to magazine covers for ms.