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The East Is Red, The West Is Bending

Plot: Rosler uses the format of a cooking demonstration (as in Semiotics of the Kitchen) to address cultural transaction--the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures. Reading directly from a West Bend Electric Wok instruction booklet, Rosler wryly comments upon the Oriental mystique conjured by the West Bend manufacturers, a mystique evoked and then "improved" upon through Western technology--i
Release Date: Tuesday, February 8 1977
48 years ago
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Portrait of Martha RoslerMartha RoslerMartha Rosler was 33 in The East Is Red, The West Is Bending as 'Director'
Birthday: Thu, Jul 29 1943