Martha Rossler, 3 Works I: the Restoration of High Culture in Chile; II: the Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; in, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)

Name: Martha Rossler, 3 Works I: the Restoration of High Culture in Chile; II: the Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; in, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)
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ISBN: 9780919616462

ISBN-10: 0919616461

ISBN-13: 9780919616462

Edition: 2006th 2006 (Expanded)

Authors: Martha Rosler

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In 3 Works, 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 anaesthesia and corruption a successful adaptation to high culture implies, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, a 1974 photo…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2006th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 89
Size: 11.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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.