Art
Among her most widely known works are the pioneering videotapes Semiotics of the Kitchen (1974/75), Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977), Losing: A Conversation with the Parents (1977), and, with Paper Tiger Television, Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (1982) and Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M (1988).
Her photo/text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974/75) is considered a seminal work in conceptual and postmodern photographic practice.
Also widely noted are her series of photomontages, Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain (c. 1966–72), addressing the photographic representation of women and domesticity, and Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, addressing the imagery of the Vietnam War (c. 1967–72; reprised in relation to the War in Iraq in 2004 and 2008).
Many of these works are concerned with the geopolitics of entitlements and dispossession. Her writing and photographic series on roads, the system of air transport, and urban undergrounds (subways or metros) join her other works addressing urban planning and architecture, from housing to homelessness.
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