Work and the Image - Vol II - Work in Modern Times - Visual Meditations and Social Processes

MAINZ, Valerie and Griselda Pollock (edit)

ISBN 10: 0754602338 / ISBN 13: 9780754602330

Published by Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001

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Large 8vo in orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 256ppiit index etc . [CONDITION: An almost AS NEW unmarked copy (bottom cover fore-corner tips slightly creased from bumping) in a moderately sunned but otherwise AS NEW complete Dust Jacket (looks new in its removable transparent protector) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work and the Image - Vol II - Work in Modern Times - Visual Meditations and Social Processes
• Publisher: Ashgate, Aldershot
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754602338
• ISBN 13: 9780754602330
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Published in two volumes, "Work and the Image" 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. With a shared focus on the 20th century, the era of modernity and its postmodern aftermath, the essays in this volume examine the diverse ways in which the social relations of work in industrial societies from both capitalist and socialist regimes were publicly and privately mediated by changing forms of visual representation. The authors discuss traditional analyses of the image of the worker in the light of contemporary critical theories that address the question of the subjectivity of the worker in relation to class, gender, nationhood and the concept of modernity.