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Makeup/Hands Up, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Photomontage featuring a closely cropped color image of a light-skinned woman applying eye makeup with a brush. Covering her eye is a smaller, black-and-white image of a dark-skinned man holding a gun to blindfolded figure holding their hands up high.
© 1967-72 Martha Rosler.

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  • Photomontage featuring a closely cropped color image of a light-skinned woman applying eye makeup with a brush. Covering her eye is a smaller, black-and-white image of a dark-skinned man holding a gun to blindfolded figure holding their hands up high.

Date:

1967–72

Artist:

Martha Rosler
American, born 1943

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Martha Rosler

Title

Makeup/Hands Up, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1967–1972

Medium

Photomontage

Edition

10 of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs

Dimensions

61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior gift of Adeline Yates

Reference Number

2008.185.4

Copyright

© 1967-72 Martha Rosler.

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