Martha Rosler : 3 Works
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • spiral bound
  • duotone
  • 20.5 x 28 cm.
  • 89 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0919616208

Martha Rosler : 3 Works

[First Edition]

Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler : 3 Works

description

Artist's book, edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, which was the first publication in The Nova Scotia Pamphlets series. "In this book photographer and critic Martha Rosler braids together three classic, newly relevant pieces tracing the ways in which photography's aesthetic conventions and social practices fail or succeed in generating socially meaningful work--work that not only takes into account the political conditions within which it was produced and assumes social and political responsibility but also activates the viewer. The title three works are The Restoration of High Culture in Chile, a 1972 short fiction piece-cum-essay that examines the degrees of political anesthesia and corruption a successful adaptation to high culture implies, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, a 1974 photo work in which contemporary urban photography's capacity to continue documentary photography's historical work is questioned, and in, around, and afterthoughts, a 1981 critical essay exploring these questions more systematically and attempting to develop criteria to define contemporary photographic activities as meaningful social practice." -- publisher's statement

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