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

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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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of contributors List of figures 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 Index