
Work and the Image
Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. June 2018
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-1-138-73036-6 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2000. "Work and the Image", published in two volumes, addresses a critical theme in contemporary social and cultural debates whose place in visual representation has been neglected. Ranging from Greek pottery to contemporary performance, and exploring a breadth of geo-national perspectives including those of France, Britain, Hungary, Soviet Russia, the Ukraine, Siberia and Germany, the essays provide a challenging reconsideration of the image of work, the meaning of the work process, and the complex issues around artistic activity as itself a form of work even as it offers a representation of labour. Volume I includes interdisciplinary case studies which plot the changing definitions of work as labour, craft, social relations and a source of historical identity, while analyzing the role of visual representation in their formation and transformation. The diverse essays cover such topics as anti-slavery movements and enunciation of workers' rights, revolutionary politics, relations of class and gender, industrial masculinities and women's rural sociality, unemployment and subjectivity, Stalinist aesthetics and nationalist identities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
523 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-73036-6 (9781138730366)
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Valerie Mainz | Griselda Pollock
Work and the Image
Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories
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11/2019
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Valerie Mainz | Griselda Pollock
Work and the Image
Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories
E-Book
01/2019
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€47.49
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Valerie Mainz | Griselda Pollock
Work and the Image
Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories
E-Book
01/2019
Routledge
€47.49
Available for download
Persons
Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock
Content
Introduction; 1: A Greek vase-painting: comments on the nature of craftsmanship?; 2: Aux armes et aux arts! Blacksmiths at the National Convention; 3: 'The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover': LaVille-Leroulx's Portrait de Negresse and the signs of misrecognition; 4: Death and the worker: Rethel in 1849; 5: Gender and the ideology of capitalism: William Bell Scott's Iron and Coal; 6: Time and work-discipline in Pissarro; 7: Mihaly Biro's Nepszava poster and the emergence of Tendenzkunst; 8: A re-vision of Ukrainian identity: images of labouring peasant women in Tatiana Yablonskaia's Corn , 1949; 9: Life and work in Silesia according to Kazimierz Kutz; 10: This time next year we'll be farting through silk: aspiration and experience