Martha Rosler : The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems

30 Sep-25 Oct 2014

Overview

In The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974—75), Martha Rosler bridged the concerns of art with those of political documentary. A series of twenty-one black-and-white photographs, twenty-four text panels and three blank panels, the work embraces the codes of the photo-text experiments of the period and applies them to the social reality of New York’s Lower East Side. Martha Rosler: The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems by Steve Edwards, is a title from Afterall's One Work series, published in 2012. One Work focuses on artworks that have significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history.