In 3 Works, Martha Rosler braids together three pieces tracing the ways in which photography's aesthetic conventions and social practices fail or succeed in generating socially meaningful work. The three works are "The Restoration of High Culture in Chile", a 1972 piece 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 (on Documentary Photography)", a 1981 essay exploring these questions more systematically.  Heavy card covers with a metal spiral binding. 89 pages; b&w photographic plates and reproductions through out; 11 x 8 inches.

Martha Rossler: 3 Works

Martha Rosler

Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design

With contributions by: Christine Benglia Bevington Marie Annick Brown Andrew Byard Cenén The Chinatown History Project Clinton Coalition of Concern Rosalyn Deutsche Dan Graham and Robin Hurst Alexander Kluge The Mad Housers Tony Masso The Nation Richard Plunz William Price Yvonne Rainer Mel Rosenthal Allan Sekula Camilo José Vergara Dan Wiley
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If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism : A Project by Martha Rosier (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

The New Press

In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which, for those who have been granted a place within it, an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be either utterly dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification, and one no longer asks where all of this came from and how. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.
e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Culture Class

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Sternberg Press

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