Composition with Red Ribbon 1951

Editor: Here we have Louise Rösler’s *Composition with Red Ribbon*, a mixed-media collage held at the Harvard Art Museums. It feels almost like a fractured memory. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see an engagement with the post-war context, a society piecing itself back together. Rösler uses discarded materials, scraps of printed matter, transforming them into something new. Consider, too, the role of women artists at this time exploring abstraction. Editor: I see that, the idea of transforming the mundane into art through abstraction. It’s like a visual representation of societal reconstruction, through the lens of a woman artist. Thanks for highlighting that. Curator: Indeed, and how museums validate these contributions shapes our understanding of art history itself.