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Decoys and Disruptions Selected Writings, 1975-2001

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ISBN-10: 0262681587

ISBN-13: 9780262681582

Edition: 2006

Authors: Martha Rosler, George Baker, Yve-alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman

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This is a collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosler. The writings address such key topics as documentary photography, feminist art, video, government patronage of the arts, cencorship and the future of digitally based photographic media.
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 7.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.958

Martha Rosler lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught and lectured on photography since the mid-1970s. Her work wasthe subject of a major retrospective, "Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World," in 2000. She is the author of 14 books and numerous essays.

Preface
Situated in Context
For an Art against the Mythology of Everyday Life
Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience
Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment
Strategies of Production
The Figure of the Artist, the Figure of the Woman
Lee Friedlander, an Exemplary Modern Photographer
Notes on Quotes
Photography as Image and Trace
In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)
Post-Documentary, Post-Photography
Wars and Metaphors
Image Simulations, Computer Manipulations: Some Considerations
Censorship and Power
Theses on Defunding
The Suppression Agenda for Art
Place, Position, Power, Politics
Photo Credits
Index