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(KRUGER, BARBARA) (1945- )
Group of 23 dynamic matchbooks printed with the artist’s iconic photomontages, each using
appropriated images embellished with banners of provocative text, including the phrases “Your
comfort is my silence,”“We have received orders not to move,” and “Your manias become science.”
This selection represents the 7 designs that were available, in two different sizes. Black-and-white
photolithograph on black matchbook multiples, each fully intact and unopened. 1986
[600/900]
The full set includes “Your Manias Become Science” (4), “Surveillance” (3), “Your Comfort is My Science”
(3), “Charisma is the Perfume of Your Gods” (3), “You are an Experiment in Terror” (3), “You Construct
Intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men” (3), and “You have received orders not to
move” (4).
These matchbooks were published by the Hoffman Gallery, in Chicago, and were also available at the Colab
Store at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery. They have been reproduced in Deborah Wye, Artists and Prints:
Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork: Museum of Modern Art, 2004.