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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/450/459-43.jpg
Title	Untitled (We Have Received Orders Not to Move).
Creator	Kruger, Barbara (American conceptual artist, designer, and writer, born 1945)
Date	1982
Cultural Context	American North American
Style/Period	Contemporary Conceptual Postmodern
Theme	Conceptual art Photographs Black-and-white photographs Stats (copies) Reproductions Copies (derivative objects) Collages (visual works) Appropriation (imagery) Imagery Aphorisms Words Inscriptions Text (layout feature) Lettering (layout features) Lowercase letters Letters (signs) Language (verbal communication) Graphic design Layout (composition) Advertisements Advertising Mass media Mass production Culture Popular culture Political art Feminism Women Gender issues Social issues Social structure Social stratification Social status Social groups Social classes Sex discrimination Sex role Discrimination Power Figurative art Figures (representations) Silhouettes Profiles (figures) Sitting Pins (fasteners)
Subject	Photographs Stats Reproductions Collages Language Slogans Graphic design Inscriptions Lettering (Layout features) Advertisements Advertising Feminism Women Social aspects Social classes Social life Social justice Social values Political issues Discrimination Sexism Interpersonal relations Power (Social sciences) Silhouettes Sitting Pins & needles
Description	"Given her interest in writing, it is not surprising that [Kruger] soon began to incorporate words into her art. Her new mode - large-scale black and white images reshot from scavenged photos and interpolated with a written message - debuted in New York at the alternative space P.S. 1 and was shown at the 1983 Whitney Biennial. These signature works are encased in attention-drawing red enamel frames that emphasize the purposeful packaging of the work as a commodity. […] Kruger's feminist politics were now manifest in the content of her art rather than in the form. On a literal level Untitled (We Have Received Orders Not to Move) momentarily immobilizes the viewer who takes the time to read its simple declarative statement. Its arresting impact intensifies as it becomes clear that the collective 'we,' defined by a woman's voice, encompasses the pinned model, the artist, and the female spectators subject to masculine control." (Excerpt, pp.139-140); "Barbara Kruger, rather than making her own photographs, has combined found media imagery involving the male gaze and its various hidden projections of personal power with brief texts of her own devising. Sometimes by reinforcement of the thrust of the image, sometimes by controversion of it, and sometimes by oblique wry comment, these texts force on the viewer an awareness of the process whereby concepts such as womanness - and power-supporting concepts in general - are created and maintained." (Excerpt, p.195)
Material	Black-and-white photograph
Measurements	71 x 49 in. (framed)
Technique	Copying Photography Photographic processes Photographic techniques Collage (technique)
Inscription	Text reads: We have received orders not to move
Work Type	Conceptual art Photographs Collages Stats (copies) Copies (derivative objects) Reproductions
Repository	Carol and Arthur A. Goldberg Collection
Source	Rosen, Randy, and Catherine C. Brawer. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. (p.[196], pl.183)
Rights	Compilation [of Rosen] copyright © 1989 Maidenform, Inc.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 459-43.jpg
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