Title Martha Rosler : the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems / Steve Edwards

Published London : Afterall, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations Series One work One work. Contents An encounter -- Descriptions. Inadequate descriptions ; Another inadequate description -- Frames. Words and pictures ; Work ; The vernacular mode ; Political modernism -- Speculations. The poetry of the future (Three blank sheets) ; A poetic mode -- Endnotes Summary The first sustained critical examination of a work by Martha Rosler that bridged the concerns of conceptual art with those of political documentary. In The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974'1975) Martha Rosler bridged the concerns of conceptual art with those of political documentary. The work, a series of twenty-one black-and-white photographs, twenty-four text panels and three blank panels, embraces the codes of the photo-text experiments of the late 1960s and applies them to the social reality of New York's Lower East Side. The prevailing critical view of The Bowery focuses on its implicit rejection, or critique, of established modes of documentary. In this illustrated, extended essay on the work by Rosler, Steve Edwards argues that although the critical attitude towards documentary is an important dimension of the piece, it does not exhaust the meaning of the project. Edwards situates the work in relation to debates and practices of the period, especially conceptual art and the emergence of the photo-text paradigm exemplified by the work of Robert Smithson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hans Haacke, Victor Burgin, and the Women and Work group. In particular, he contextualizes Rosler's work of this period within the politicized San Diego group (which included, in addition to Rosler, Allan Sekula, Fred Lonidier, and Philip Steinmetz). Comparing The Bowery to Rosler's later video vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained (1977) and the films of the Dziga-Vertov Group (formed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin), Edwards shows how the work engages with conceptual art and the neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Rosler, Martha. Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems. Rosler, Martha -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Rosler, Martha fast Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (Rosler, Martha) fast Subject Conceptual art -- United States ART -- Conceptual. Conceptual art United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2011534276 ISBN 9781846380990 1846380995 9781846381003 1846381002 1280998652 9781280998652 9786613770264 6613770264

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