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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Text has always played a major role in the work of visual artist Rosler, whose photographs and other documentary-based art often contain caption or even essay-like elements. This book selects among Rosler’s explicitly critical and polemical interventions, from a manifesto "For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life" to "Place, Position, Power, Politics." Rosler’s writing is as direct and nuanced as her work, which makes up a large proportion of the 64 b&w illustrations here, reinforcing and expanding on points made by the book’s 14 essays. She engages practice-based questions ("How might artists and other cultural workers abrogate the gospel of genius, isolation and formalist concerns?") and does critical summings-up of what has come before ("Feminists made it their business to show ‘weakness’, ‘lack’ and ‘exclusion’ not only as imposed but also as remediable"). She engages the work of scores of photographers in passing and in depth (as in the piece "Leo Friedlander, an Exemplary Modern Photographer") in touching on a host of issues, most urgently the truth claims made for photographs and the changing status of documentary photography over the last century. For anyone who left Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others wanting more, this compendium of a quarter-century’s work is a terrific place to start.
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"Martha Rosler's practice demonstrates that feminism is not a politics of the few but a politics of the many, and that gender inequality is neither distinct from racial and class injustice nor separable from the politics of representation and power relations of the artistic field. Decoys and Disruptions constitutes a theory of activist art at its fiercest, most complex, and most urgent."
--Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"Martha Rosler, one of the most important critical thinkers and artists of the present, becomes available in this collection of vitally important essays. Her work constitutes a major oeuvre in the analysis of the processes of power in our society--processes so embedded in the practices of daily life that we no longer see or know them. Her trenchant and lucid analyses of the relations between life worlds and art worlds are ever more timely in their historical depth and contemporary relevance."
--Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
"For many years, and almost single-handedly, Martha Rosler has provided a solid theoretical basis for critical studies in photography and video. This collection of her lucid essays is a useful compilation of her most important theoretical work. Seeing the essays (and a fascinating collection of photographs) together in this book, one is struck by the depth of her work: a unique blend of insight as critical clarity and art as idea."
--DeeDee Halleck, independent film maker and Professor Emeritus of Communications, University of California, San Diego
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Text has always played a major role in the work of visual artist Rosler, whose photographs and other documentary-based art often contain caption or even essay-like elements. This book selects among Rosler’s explicitly critical and polemical interventions, from a manifesto "For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life" to "Place, Position, Power, Politics." Rosler’s writing is as direct and nuanced as her work, which makes up a large proportion of the 64 b&w illustrations here, reinforcing and expanding on points made by the book’s 14 essays. She engages practice-based questions ("How might artists and other cultural workers abrogate the gospel of genius, isolation and formalist concerns?") and does critical summings-up of what has come before ("Feminists made it their business to show ‘weakness’, ‘lack’ and ‘exclusion’ not only as imposed but also as remediable"). She engages the work of scores of photographers in passing and in depth (as in the piece "Leo Friedlander, an Exemplary Modern Photographer") in touching on a host of issues, most urgently the truth claims made for photographs and the changing status of documentary photography over the last century. For anyone who left Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others wanting more, this compendium of a quarter-century’s work is a terrific place to start.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
"Martha Rosler's practice demonstrates that feminism is not a politics of the few but a politics of the many, and that gender inequality is neither distinct from racial and class injustice nor separable from the politics of representation and power relations of the artistic field. Decoys and Disruptions constitutes a theory of activist art at its fiercest, most complex, and most urgent."
--Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"Martha Rosler, one of the most important critical thinkers and artists of the present, becomes available in this collection of vitally important essays. Her work constitutes a major oeuvre in the analysis of the processes of power in our society--processes so embedded in the practices of daily life that we no longer see or know them. Her trenchant and lucid analyses of the relations between life worlds and art worlds are ever more timely in their historical depth and contemporary relevance."
--Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
"For many years, and almost single-handedly, Martha Rosler has provided a solid theoretical basis for critical studies in photography and video. This collection of her lucid essays is a useful compilation of her most important theoretical work. Seeing the essays (and a fascinating collection of photographs) together in this book, one is struck by the depth of her work: a unique blend of insight as critical clarity and art as idea."
--DeeDee Halleck, independent film maker and Professor Emeritus of Communications, University of California, San Diego
See all Editorial Reviews
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- Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (Writing Art) by Vito Acconci in Front Matter
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