Martha Rosler

by Leyer, Luise; Baden, Sebastian; Morgan, Nicolas C.

• ISBN13: 9783969121245
• ISBN10: 3969121248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-28
• Publisher: DCV

Summary

The American conceptual artist and pioneer of critical feminism Martha Rosler (b. 1943 in Brooklyn, NY, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) has influenced numerous contemporary artists with the radicalism of her artistic position. Rosler’ s work is always political and examines questions of power and violence, the ideals of beauty and their demolition, and the purported contrasts between war and consumption. For her sociocritical collages and videos, Rosler uses found pictorial material that has already been published. The artist delights in working with photos from public sources like magazines and newspapers, which she processes and arranges in new contexts in order to visualize inequality and protest. Following on from Rosler’ s iconic series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (ca. 1967– 1972), at the heart of the publication lies the confrontation with warlike disputes as conveyed in the media, together with the associated dissonance between the private and the political. Martha Rosler received a Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1965 and a Master of Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1985.

Author Biography

Luise Leyer, Frankfurt / Main, Hesse (Germany) - is a German art historian and curator at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Sebastian Baden (born 1980 in Kaiserslautern[1]) is a German art historian and director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Nicholas C. Morgan is a historian of modern and contemporary art, and teaches at Columbia University. He is at work on a book examining art in relation to queer communities, institutional critique, and the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, and another on the intersecting questions of labor, the resistance to work, and reproduction in art and film of the 1960s and 1970s.