Martha Rosler reads Vogue
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Author: Martha Rosler
Context: http://www.ubu.com/film/rosler_vogue.html http://www.eai.org/eai/title.htm?id=2201
File: http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/Rosler-Martha_Martha-Rosler-Reads-Vogue_1982.avi
Date: 1983
Description
In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's reliance on sweatshops.
Bio
http://www.eai.org/eai/artistBio.htm?id=476
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