Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943 Search this
Medium:
inkjet print
Dimensions:
overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
Gallery Label:
House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home addresses the subject of gender as it confronts the effects of war and militarism. Collaged from advertising and photojournalistic images cut from newspapers and magazines, the artworks in this series juxtapose the "feminine" realm of domestic life with the "manly" business of waging war.
When Martha Rosler created these works, the US war in Vietnam was rapidly escalating. She observed that news images of the war often reinforced the impression that it was taking place "very far away, in a place we couldn't imagine." She crafted her photomontages to collapse the distance between home front and war front, essentially "bringing the war home." In the artist's words, "We are not 'here' and 'there.' We are all one, and that is crucial."
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
