Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler is an artist working with both text and images. Her work often contains social issues, for example war and feminism. The photomontages she creates often cause a shocking factor because of the juxtapositions she creates.

One of the series I have looked at is "Bringing the war home- House beautiful". She has done a set of this work based on the Vietnam war and later reworked the project on the war in Iraq.

The photomontages contain very disturbing images of the dead and wounded, she then uses magazine adverts containing women to show the effect of the war on lives but maybe that we don't take much notice. I have looked at this artist due to her montaging these women out of magazines and using them for dramatic juxtaposition. 

Another series I have looked at is Body Beautiful, which are montages involving the representation of women.  The montages mostly concentrates on women parts instead of whole body representations which is done in the war series. 

She combines women s parts with domestic machines such as ovens and washing machines, again addressing the stereotypical role of women being for domestic use only.