Work and the Image: v. 1 & 2
Published on 29. December 2000
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-7546-0234-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Work and the Image" addresses a critical theme in contemporary social and cultural debates whose place in visual representation has been recently neglected. Offering a breadth of historical perspectives from Greek pottery to contemporary performance, the essays collected provide a challenging reconsideration of the image of work, the meaning of work process, and the complex issues around artistic activity as itself a form of work even as it offers a representation of labour. The text is in two volumes, presented together here. The first volume, "Work, Craft and Labor: Visual Representations and Changing Histories" plots the changing fields of definitions of work as labor, craft, social relations and a source of historical identity, while analyzing the role of visual representation in their formation and transformation.
The second is titled "Work in Modern Times: Visual Mediations and Social Processes" and, with a shared focus on the 20th century (the era of modernity and its postmodern aftermath) the essays examine the diverse ways in which the social relations of work in industrial societies from both capitalist and socialist spheres were publically and privately mediated by changing forms of visual representation. The authors balance the traditional analyses of the image of the worker with contemporary critical theories that address the question of the subjectivity of the worker in relation to class, gender, nationhood and the concept of modernity.
The second is titled "Work in Modern Times: Visual Mediations and Social Processes" and, with a shared focus on the 20th century (the era of modernity and its postmodern aftermath) the essays examine the diverse ways in which the social relations of work in industrial societies from both capitalist and socialist spheres were publically and privately mediated by changing forms of visual representation. The authors balance the traditional analyses of the image of the worker with contemporary critical theories that address the question of the subjectivity of the worker in relation to class, gender, nationhood and the concept of modernity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-0234-7 (9780754602347)
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Content
Volume I: A Greek vase painting - comments on the nature of craftsmanship? Michael Duigan; Aux armes et aux arts! - Blacksmiths at the National Convention, Valerie Mainz; "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover" - LaVille-Leroulx's Portrait de N gresse and the signs of misrecognition, Helen Weston; Death and the worker - Rethel in 1849, Will Vaughan; Gender and the Ideology of Capitalism - William Bell Scott's Iron and Coal, Jane Garnett; Time and work-discipline in Pissarro, T.J. Clark; Mih ly Bir 's N pszava poster and the emergence of Tendenzkunst, Sherwin Simmons; A re-visions of Ukranian identity - images of labouring peasant women in Tatiana Yablonskaya's Corn, 1949; Pat Simpson; Life and work in Silesia according to Kazimierz Kurz, Ewa Mazierska; This time next year we'll be farting through silk - aspiration and experience, Anonymous. Volume II: Introduction - trauma and subjectivity in work and worklessness, Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock; "Living tableaux of misery and opression" - sweated labour on tour, Katrina Huneault; Facing horror - women's work, sculptural practice and the Great War, Claudine Mitchell; Color, light and labour - futurism and the dissolution of work, John C. Welchman; The missing m chanicienne - gender, production and order in L ger's machine aesthetic, Mo Price; "A progressive dematerialisation of labour power" - a problem for visual representation for Germany in the 1920s, Martin Ignatius Gaughan; From cyborg to state worker: figures as/in technology, Annie G rin; Realism and Ideology in Andr Forgeron's Les Pays de Mines, Vivian Rehberg; Working images - the representations of documentary film, Elizabeth Cowie; The pathos of the political - documentary, subjectivity and a forgotten moment of feminist avant-garde poetics in four films from the 1970s, Griselda Pollock; Teletales from the Crypt, Nancy Barton.