1st Edition

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

Edited By Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock Copyright 2000
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
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 Négresse 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: Mihály Biró’s Népszava 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

Biography

Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock