Main entry:

Rosler, Martha.

Title & Author:

Decoys and disruptions : selected writings, 1975-2001 / Martha Rosler.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press in association with International Center of Photography, New York, ©2004.

Description:

xii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

October books.

Notes:
"An October book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. 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. -- II. Strategies of production. The figure of the artist, the figure of the woman ; Lee Friedlander, an exemplary modern photographer ; Notes on quotes. -- III. 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. -- IV. Censorship and power. Theses on defunding ; The suppression agenda for art ; Place, position, power, politics.

Summary:

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, censorship and the future of digitally based photographic media.

ISBN:

0262182319 (alk. paper)
9780262182317 (alk. paper)
0262681587
9780262681582

Subject:

Rosler, Martha, 1943-
Rosler, Martha 1943-
Photography Philosophy.
Photography Social aspects.
Photographie Philosophie.
Photographie Aspect social.
Fotografie
Ästhetik
Kunstkritik
Filosofische aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Aspect social.
Photographie documentaire.
Photojournalisme.
Sémiotique de l'image.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

October books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232857
Call No.: TR140.R821 R6 2004
Status: Available