Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosier. Best known for her work in video, photography, performance, and installation, Rosier has also been an original and influential cultural critic and theorist for over twenty-five years. The writings collected here address such key topics as documentary photography, feminist art, power hierarchies, questions of public and private spheres, the politics of early video, government patronage of the arts, censorship, and the future of digitally based photographic media. Taken together, these thirteen essays not only show Rosler"s importance as a critic but also offer an essential resource for readers interested in the issues confronting contemporary art, including production and reception, representation and appropriation, ethics and aesthetics, and accuracy and responsibility.

Mixing analysis and wit, Rosier challenges many of the fundamental precepts of present-day art practice in investigating the role of the artist as author and citizen. Her influential essay "In, around, and afterthoughts: on documentary photography" almost single-handedly dismantled the myth of liberal documentary photography when it first appeared. Many of the essays in this volume have had a similarly wide-ranging influence; others are published here for the first time. Illustrating the essays are 81 images by Rosier and other artists and photographers.

Martha Rosier lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught and lectured on photography and media since the mid-1970s. Her work was the subject of a major retrospective in Europe and America, "Martha Rosier: Positions in the Life World," in 1998-2000. She is the author or subject of six books and has published numerous essays.

In association with International Center of Photography.

"Martha Rosler"s practice demonstrates that feminism is not a politics or me rew out a politics of the many, and that gender inequality is neither distinct from racial and class injustice nor separable from the politics of representation and power relations of the artistic field. Decoys and Disruptions constitutes a theory of activist art at its fiercest, most complex, and most urgent." — Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001 (Martha Rosler)