Tsunehisa Kimura

Gunnery Pagodas / Manhattan Niagara / The University of War

A great post from BLDG BLOG I found via the gaybombnazicastle blog. Just putting it up as I figure it’s worth sharing and I’d like to remember it later.

I wish I could find more of Tsunehisa Kimura work. A quick google search didn’t yield terribly much but I did find this interesting piece with some insight into the artist who claims Metropolis and the first-hand experience of witnessing the firebombing of Osaka in 1945 influenced his work.

Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler has become an artist of interest after recently viewing her collage series titled “Bringing The War Home”, a collection of works from the seventies which addressed the Vietnam war by juxtaposing images from two disparate media sources – Life Magazine and House Beautiful. The Aesthetics of Terror website appropriately described her collage work as “image sabotage”.

One of Rosler’s current projects is the “Martha Rosler Library”, a traveling-study hall filled with thousands of books from the artists personal collection. While creating a peculiarly intimate window into the intellectual development and inspiration of the artist, this work also communicates an earnest intent to share information in a manner non-subjugated by her own interpretations.