Rights of Passage (1997)
Texts by Rosler, Anthony Vidler, Alexander Alberro
Kortrijk, Belgium: Kanaal Art Foundation
ISBN: 9789069170022
56 pages
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Artist's book by Martha Rosler comprised of photographs documenting expressways surrounding New York City. Texts by Rosler, Anthony Vidler, Alexander Alberro.

"The road, the car, the street are the locus of daily experience in the developed world, shaping lives and creating dream scapes that accord with nothing previously imagined. The American road is offered up by the collective imaginary as the promise and precondition of the possession of "all good things." Created by entwined economic and political necessities—the material distribution of commodities and the free flow of military armaments—the road system of American Cold War capitalism helped engineer the social and cultural..."
(Martha Rosler, "Road Work”)