Martha Rosler did a series of collages called House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home. They are all using images (mostly from the magazine House Beautiful to show the extremes of what was being seen on TV during the Vietnam war, the first war extremely exposed on TV. She used this series as a protest against the war, the images show the war as literally in the home, some with images of women cleaning and just outside their window was the war. Maybe it had to do with the way the war was so in your face yet people were going on with it as if it wasn’t a problem and all was ok. This one Makeup/Hands Up, I chose because of the simplicity. I really like collage art because it shows images, which we are familiar with, and makes such a statement because of the way the story can be told out of combining images we are already familiar with seeing.
Clare Kutsko – Discussion 13
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