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Art, Labour and American Life

Author : Ben Hickman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303141490X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Art, Labour and American Life written by Ben Hickman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work’s transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity, as these things have manifested in painting, performance art, poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent re-emphasis, as we witness work’s radical redefinition across the world.

Labor’s Canvas

Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443808512
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Labor’s Canvas written by Laura Hapke and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an unprecedented and probably unique American moment, laboring people were indivisible from the art of the 1930s. By far the most recognizable New Deal art employed an endless frieze of white or racially ambiguous machine proletarians, from solo drillers to identical assembly line toilers. Even today such paintings, particularly those with work themes, are almost instantly recognizable. Happening on a Depression-era picture, one can see from a distance the often simplified figures, the intense or bold colors, the frozen motion or flattened perspective, and the uniformity of laboring bodies within an often naive realism or naturalism of treatment. In a kind of Social Realist dance, the FAP’s imagined drillers, haulers, construction workers, welders, miners, and steel mill workers make up a rugged industrial army. In an unusual synthesis of art and working-class history, Labor’s Canvas argues that however simplified this golden age of American worker art appears from a post-modern perspective, The New Deal’s Federal Art Project (FAP), under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), revealed important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers who had much in common with the blue-collar workforce. Yet they struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetic distance. Their canvases, prints, and drawings registered attitudes toward laborers as bodies without minds often shared by the wider culture. In choosing a visual language to reconnect workers to the larger society, they tried to tell the worker from the work with varying success. Drawing on a wealth of social documents and visual narratives, Labor’s Canvas engages in a bold revisionism. Hapke examines how FAP iconography both chronicles and reframes working-class history. She demonstrates how the New Deal’s artistically rendered workforce history reveals the cultural contradictions about laboring people evident even in the depths of the Great Depression, not the least in the imaginations of the FAP artists themselves.

The Other America

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other America written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1985 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Object of Labor

Author : Joan Livingstone
Publisher : Object of Labor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Object of Labor written by Joan Livingstone and published by Object of Labor. This book was released on 2007-05-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and artists' projects explore the ubiquity of cloth in everyday life and the effect of globalization on art and labor; with more than 100 color images. The Object of Labor explores the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work in the context of art and textile production. The ubiquity of cloth in everyday life, the historically resonant relationship of textile and cloth to labor, and the tumultuous drive of globalization make the issues raised by this pubication of special interest today. The seventeen essays cover topics ranging from art-making practices to labor history and the effects of globalization as seen through art and labor. The artists' projects—twelve striking and beautiful eight-page, full color spreads—conduct parallel investigations into art, cloth, and work.The contributors explore, from historical and personal perspectives, such subjects as the charged history of offshore garment workers; the different systems of production and consumption in factories, homes, studios, and exhibitions; the revelation of class, gender, and sexuality through cloth, costume, and textile images; textile production as commemorative acts in South Africa, the United States, and India; transnationalism, cultural hybridity, and race in the work of individual artists; lost histories of garment production and embroidery; the physical act of art-making as labor; and the value of handmade and "technologically improved" objects. Artist projects and portfolios Susie Brandt, Nick Cave, Park Chambers, Lisa Clark, Lia Cook, Ann Hamilton, Kimsooja, Barbara Layne and Sue Rowley, Lara Lepionka, Merrill Mason, Darrel Morris, Pepón Osorio, J. Morgan Puett and Iain Kerr, Karen Reimer, Yinka Shonibare, SubRosa, Christine Tarkowski, Anne Wilson

The Sweat of Their Face

Author : David C. Ward
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346056
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Sweat of Their Face written by David C. Ward and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work always has been a central construct in the United States, influencing how Americans measure their lives and assess their contribution to the wider society. Work also has been valued as the key element in the philosophy of self-improvement and social mobility that undergird the American value system. Yet work can also be something imposed upon people: it can be exploitative, painful, and hard. This duality is etched into the faces of the people depicted in the portraits showcased in The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers. This companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery examines working-class subjects as they appear in artworks by artists including Winslow Homer, Elizabeth Catlett, Danny Lyon, and Shauna Frischkorn. This richly illustrated book charts the rise and fall of labor from the empowered artisan of the eighteenth century through industrialization and the current American business climate, in which industrial jobs have all but disappeared. It also traces the history of work itself through its impact on the men and women whose laboring bodies are depicted. The Sweat of Their Face is a powerful visual exploration of the inextricable ties between American labor and society.

Socialism and American Life, Volume II

Author : Donald Drew Egbert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879892
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Socialism and American Life, Volume II written by Donald Drew Egbert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.... Volume 2, bibliography, is as important a contribution as the essays. Hereafter, students of practically all phases of American life will turn to it for help and guidance."—U.S. Quarterly Book Review. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Women, Art and the New Deal

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662366X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Women, Art and the New Deal written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

Nineteenth-century American Art

Author : Barbara S. Groseclose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842251
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century American Art written by Barbara S. Groseclose and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many well-known artists, including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, and lesser-known artists like Harriet Hosmer are closely examined, as is the art world of the time. In addition to discussing the free movement of American visual culture between 'high' and 'low', Barbara Groseclose interweaves nineteenth-century art criticism with current art history, to create a fascinating insight into the changing interpretations of American art of this period."--BOOK JACKET.

Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

Author : Paul DiMaggio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547571
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States by : Paul DiMaggio

Download or read book Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States written by Paul DiMaggio and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.

At Work

Author : Mark Dean Johnson
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Work written by Mark Dean Johnson and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Powerful examination of labor history in California. Includes full-color and b&w images by Tina Modotti, Richard Correll, Henrietta Shore, Diego Rivera and others.

A Labor of Love

Author : New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Labor of Love written by New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Labor of Love uses over one hundred often intricate and labor-intensive works of art and installations by Pier Consagra, Dianna Frid, Liza Lou and forty-seven other artists to explore the definitions and categorizations which have separated decorative and hobby arts, craft, outsider and folk art from the fine arts. Supported by brief artists statements, an in-depth essay by director Marcia Tucker examines the distinctions between "amateur" and "professional" artists; the impact of feminist theory and practice in ideas of domestic labor and art making; the different values assigned to work made in the public and private realms; the place of handiwork in American culture today; and the traditional separation of high art from the quotidian. "I'm not trying to say that there is no difference at all between art and life, aesthetics and politics. Now do I believe that folk and fine, high and popular art are the same; there are differences in relation of making to community; differences in intent and value; in function and in form, purpose, training, context; opportunity, reception, etc., that are neither simple nor singular. But when works of art elude and thus destabilize accepted categories, they encourage us to think about how, when, and for what purpose the categories were created." --Publisher.

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Staging Modern American Life

Author : T. Fahy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023033959X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Staging Modern American Life written by T. Fahy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental

Robert Koehler’s The Strike

Author : James M. Dennis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299251330
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Robert Koehler’s The Strike written by James M. Dennis and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined confrontation between factory workers and their employer. He called this oil painting The Strike. It has had a long and tumultuous international history as a symbol of class struggle and the cause of workers’ rights. First exhibited just days before the tragic Chicago Haymarket riot, The Strike became an inspiration for the labor movement. In the midst of the campaign for an eight-hour workday, it gained international attention at expositions in Paris, Munich, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Though the painting fell into obscurity for decades in the early twentieth century, The Strike lived on in wood-engraved reproductions in labor publications. Its purchase, restoration, and exhibition by New Left activist Lee Baxandall in the early 1970s launched it to international fame once more, and collectors and galleries around the world scrambled to acquire it. It is now housed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. Art historian James M. Dennis has crafted a compelling “biography” of Koehler’s painting: its exhibitions, acclaim, neglect, and rediscovery. He introduces its German-born creator and politically diverse audiences and traces the painting’s acceptance and rejection through the years, exploring how class and sociopolitical movements affected its reception. Dennis considers the significance of key figures in the painting, such as the woman asserting her presence in the center of action. He compellingly explains why The Strike has earned its identity as the iconic painting of the industrial labor movement.

Framing America

Author : Frances Kathryn Pohl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Framing America written by Frances Kathryn Pohl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract:

The American Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures, Products, and Resources of the United States of America (London, 1886).

Author : American Exhibition
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The American Exhibition of the Arts, Manufactures, Products, and Resources of the United States of America (London, 1886). written by American Exhibition and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)