MARTHA ROSLER, Untitled (Postcard), 1973-2017
15 x 10,5 cm
Postal Service Series #4
edition 100
mailed, condition: excellent
published by More Publishers, Brussels, Belgium
inv.MRos 897-pr

Postcards were sent to people from a mailing list of the artist. An enlarged version of the same postcard was released as a poster in an edition of 25 + 5 AP.

‘In her performances, videos, textual works, photographs, and installations, Rosler confronts her audiences with political subjects and the role of the media, analyzing quotidian, domestic, and urban life from a feminist viewpoint not altogether devoid of humor. In her series, “Beauty Knows No Pain,” or “Body Beautiful” (1965-74), she used techniques of collage to create a sense of unease with the ways in which women are portrayed. She has used this technique continuously, as in her well-known series of photomontages, “Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful,” and “Bringing the War Home: In Vietnam” (1967-72). Here, as in her installation “B-52 in Baby’s Tears” (1974), Rosler scrutinizes the role of the mass media in wartime.’ Generali Foundation 1974, Salzburg, Austria.