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

Mainz, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138730351 ISBN 13: 9781138730359

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

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.

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About the Author

Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138730351
• ISBN 13: 9781138730359
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Pollock Griselda