Barbara Kruger – You’re Right (And You Know It and So Should Everyone Else) (2010)

A quintessential example of Barbara Kruger’s bold, confrontational style, You’re Right (And You Know It and So Should Everyone Else) (2010) revisits and expands upon one of her iconic early text-based works. Rendered in her signature Futura Bold Italic typeface in white against red blocks over a black-and-white appropriated photograph—often depicting a woman’s fearful or fragmented face—the full declarative statement reads: “YOU’RE RIGHT AND YOU KNOW IT AND SO SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE.”

This piece exemplifies Kruger’s masterful use of direct address (“you”) to implicate the viewer, blending advertising aesthetics with feminist critique, power dynamics, consumerism, and self-assured arrogance. The ironic tension between the assertive text and the underlying image of vulnerability or distress highlights themes of dogma, entitlement, and the enforcement of opinion in media and society.

Details:

•  Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper

•  Year: 2010

•  Edition: Limited to 200 (signed, dated, and numbered on verso); plus approximately 50 artist’s proofs

•  Sheet Size: Approximately 9 x 24 in. (22.9 x 61 cm)

•  Publisher: Editions and Artists Books Fair, New York

A highly collectible multiple that echoes Kruger’s groundbreaking 1980s paste-ups, this work remains relevant in discussions of propaganda, echo chambers, and authority.

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Ed. 129/200

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil verso