"Bloomberg L.P. Represents You"

American

2007

A screenprint with ink additions that adopts the blunt visual language of a poster to question the claim that Bloomberg L.P. represents ordinary people.

You first notice the oversized, handlike black lettering—“BLOOMBERG L.P. REPRESENTS YOU”—set against a small, repetitive blue patterned field, with a tiny, sardonic fine-print line at the bottom that undercuts the headline.

The work extends the long lineage of political printmaking by using mass-media aesthetics to expose corporate power and to insist that seeing critique isn’t the same as taking political action.

Medium

Screenprint with ink additions

Dimensions

composition and sheet (irreg.): 25 x 19" (63.5 x 48.2 cm)

Classification

Department

Drawings & Prints

Credit

General Print Fund

Accession

1260.2008.6

Palette

Art Terms

Screenprint Print Poster Graphic design Institutional critique Contemporary art

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

American Prints, 19601985

1987

London/New York/Hollywood: A New Look in Prints

1966

Popular Mechanics in Printmaking

1970

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"Bloomberg L.P. Represents You"

Kayrock and Wolfy

American

2007

A screenprint with ink additions that adopts the blunt visual language of a poster to question the claim that Bloomberg L.P. represents ordinary people.

The work extends the long lineage of political printmaking by using mass-media aesthetics to expose corporate power and to insist that seeing critique isn’t the same as taking political action.

Medium

Screenprint with ink additions

Dimensions

composition and sheet (irreg.): 25 x 19" (63.5 x 48.2 cm)

Classification

Department

Drawings & Prints

Credit

General Print Fund

Accession

1260.2008.6

Palette

Art Terms

Screenprint Print Poster Graphic design Institutional critique Contemporary art

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

American Prints, 19601985

1987

London/New York/Hollywood: A New Look in Prints

1966

Popular Mechanics in Printmaking

1970

View on moma.org ↗

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