Martha Rosler “For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life.”

“For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life” is mainfestoish text by the great Martha Rosler. It was first published in Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal No.23, June-July 1979.

“Our mode of economic organization, in which people seem less important than the things they produce, prompts us to stand reality on its head by granting the aura of life to things and draining it from people: We personify objects and objectify persons.”