Tuesday 17 April 2012

Martha Rosler

She is an American artist, Born in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives now.
She studied in Brooklyn College 1965 and graduated from the University of California, San Diego 1974.
She writes about art and culture and has published about sixteen books of photography, art and writing.
for example,
The Photo Books Passionate Signals (Cantz,2005)
In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997)
If You Lived Here (Free Press 1991)


 Her work is more about every day life and often on women's experience in their lives.

Decoys and Disruptions, Selected Writings, 1975_2001 is the first comprehensive collection of Roster’s writings.

Passionate Signals (2005)
Positions in the life world, in this book you can find a selection of her projects.

She also works in video, photography and performance
A Budding Gourmet
Semiotics of the Kitchen
Losing: A Conversation with the Parents
The East Is Red, the West is bending
Travelling Garage Sale
In the Place of the Public: Airport Series
Seattle: Hidden Histories

She taught art at Rutgers University and in Germany, Frankfurt,
From large number of project and art work the series of photomontages which represent women and domesticity like Body Beautiful or Beauty Knows No Pain.
And Bringing the War Home, House Beautiful, had wide influence and known nationally and internationally.







 Wikipedia
WWW.martharosler.net

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