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Martha Rosler, Make-up/ Hands-up, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018, inkjet print, overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2021.7.10, Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Make-up/ Hands-up, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
- Copyright
- Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
- Credit Line
- Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- inkjet print
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Object — weapon — gun
- Dress — accessory — makeup
- Figure female — fragment — face
- Occupation — military — soldier
- Figure group
- Object Number
- 2021.7.10
Artwork Description
When Martha Rosler created these works, the US war in Vietnam was rapidly escalating. She observed that news images of the war often reinforced the impression that it was taking place "very far away, in a place we couldn't imagine." She crafted her photomontages to collapse the distance between home front and war front, essentially "bringing the war home." In the artist's words, "We are not 'here' and 'there.' We are all one, and that is crucial."