Losing- [videorecording] : a conversation with the parents / Martha Rosler. [1977]

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Losing- [videorecording] : a conversation with the parents / Martha Rosler. [1977]

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Losing presents a fictionalized conversation with the parents of a young woman who has just died of anorexia nervosa. The discussion turns to world hunger and the politics of food, foregrounding the contradictory, yet related, issues of self-starvation and the starvation of others. While confronting serious subjects, Rosler also plays with the television forms of confessional interview, documentary, and soap opera.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (19 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

Rosler, Martha

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Martha Rosler (1943- ) is a video, photo-text, installation, and performance artist in New York, N.Y. Kathy Goncharov is Director of the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University, N.J. From the description of Oral history interview with Martha Rosler, 2009 May 22 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710020700 ...