Cleaning the Drapes, Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (1967-1972)
Patio View, Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (1967-1972)
Rosler is an American artist i have looked at in depth and find her work extremely interesting and a huge influence on me. She used imagery from Life Magazine to create a series of works for Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (1967-1972).
This was a series of collages that combined images from the Vietnam War and the images from Life Magazine, expressing the American public’s obsession with possessions and consumerism when such a violent conflict was taking place abroad, involving their own countrymen.
The images were very powerful and almost uncomfortable to look at, reminding people in an in-your-face manner that there are more important things in life than having matching carpet and drapes.
Her work was very politically motivated and she was an activist herself, powering her work emotionally and politically. She was making a statement and reflecting the unhappiness of much of the general public about the war in Vietnam. By combining the imagery from two so very different but recognizable sources she created something powerful and reflective of the time in which it was made. She then created a similar series in 2004-2007 about the war in Iraq, which again she strongly objected to.
Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (2004-2007)
