This document discusses social values and issues in art and how artists can use repetition, text, and images to convey powerful social messages. It defines social values as principles that groups regard as important and social issues as problems that affect people. The document provides examples of values like equality and issues like bias. It asks how repetition, photographs, and text can combine to strengthen an artist's commentary and provides examples of works by Barbara Kruger that blend these techniques to examine social topics.

1. Social Values In Art:
Repetition, Text and Image

2. • Social Values - Principles and standards of human
interaction within a given group that are regarded by members
of that group as being worthy, important, or significant.
• Examples
• Equal Opportunity
• Prosperity
• Honesty, Truthfulness
• Compassion
• Respect for the Individual
• Family
• World Unity

3. • Social Issues- matters which directly or indirectly affect a
person or many members of a society and are considered to
be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both.
• Examples
• Equal Opportunity - - - BIAS
• Prosperity - - - POVERTY
• Honesty, Truthfulness - - - DECEPTION
• Compassion - - - SELFISHNESS
• Respect for the Individual - - - ABUSE
• Family - - - SINGLE PARENTS AND
DIVORCE
• World Unity - - - WAR

4. • What is repetition?
• What is a photograph?
• What is text?
• How do you think combining these techniques
enables an artist to make a social message more
powerful?

6. Barbara Kruger

7. Barbara Kruger

8. Barbara Kruger

14. 8.5” x 11” composition using photo, text, and repetition to express your
point of view on a social issue.