Book review: Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, written by Steve Edwards
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Steve Edwards’s book, Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, is a close study of Rosler’s 1976 artwork. The book takes up the social and political coordinates of the work’s production, focusing on the San Diego Group of which Rosler was a member, New York City during the fiscal crisis, and the broader contribution Rosler makes to what Edwards calls ‘second-wave political modernism’. This review considers Edwards’s analyses of the work, and locates its importance within the discussion around Rosler, as well as the broader history of radical American art.
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Book review: Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, written by Steve Edwards
In: Historical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Larne Kate Abse Gogarty in
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Steve Edwards’s book, Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, is a close study of Rosler’s 1976 artwork. The book takes up the social and political coordinates of the work’s production, focusing on the San Diego Group of which Rosler was a member, New York City during the fiscal crisis, and the broader contribution Rosler makes to what Edwards calls ‘second-wave political modernism’. This review considers Edwards’s analyses of the work, and locates its importance within the discussion around Rosler, as well as the broader history of radical American art.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 373 | 63 | 10 |
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 84 | 7 | 0 |
