Martha Rosler: 3 Works: I the Restoration of High Culture; II the Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; III In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)
Martha Rosler: 3 Works: I the Restoration of High Culture; II the Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; III In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)
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 ...
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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 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 pract
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Publisher:
Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Published:
2006
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18073822607
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.
Publisher:
Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Published:
2006
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14315365064
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Very Good in 9780919616462 jacket. Martha rosler, 3 works: 1. the restoration of high culture in chile 2. the bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems 3. in, around, and afterthoughts ( on documentary photography) by Martha Rosler. 102 pages, black and white reproductions. 8" x 11". Slight wear to the cover edges and corners. inside in very good + condition.
