Work and the Image: Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories

Valerie Mainz (Curatore)

Griselda Pollock (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018

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.

• Curatore: Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Revivals
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 234 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 590 gr.
• EAN: 9781138730366

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