The best way to describe what she does is to take one of her quotes "I want to make art about the commonplace, art that illumines social life. I want to enlist art to question the mythical explanations of everyday life that take shape as an optimistic rationalism and to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and the culture of monopoly capitalism."
(http://www.egs.edu/faculty/martha-rosler/biography/)
One of her most famous series' is “Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful,” this series was created in the form of photo collage out of images from life style magazines and images she collected from the Vietnam War. The reason behind this series was that she wanted to show the effects the was in Vietnam had on the suburban homes of America (http://jessicaannkern.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/artist-post-1-martha-rosler.html).
Cleaning the drapes
This image I think is particularly clever as it is so honest and easy to understand. The drapes could represent the propaganda created surrounding the Vietnam war, they also tie the two subjects (the Vietnam war and the suburban life) together. I like how this piece is asthetically interesting and has real meaning behind it. I also think that the use of photo montage works well as the images are cut and paste together just like the topics of the image. The black and white scale works well as it makes you focus purely on what is going on rather than the colours, it also fits in with the time period of the content as the news on Vietnam would have been received by suburban America via black and white television and newspapers.
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