Work and the Image: Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories (Routledge Revivals Ser.)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2000

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
236 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351746113
Related ISBNs:
9781138730366, 9781315189444, 9781138730359
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Routledge
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Valerie Mainz
Edited by:
Griselda Pollock

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