Art, Labour and American Life
Art, Labour and American Life

Author: Ben Hickman

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-21

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 303141490X

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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.

Art and Labour
Art and Labour

Author: Dave Beech

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9004321527

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This book provides a new history of the changing relationship between art, craft and industry focusing and a new political theory of the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour.

Socialism and American Life, Volume II
Socialism and American Life, Volume II

Author: Donald Drew Egbert

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1400879892

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"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.

Nineteenth-century American Art
Nineteenth-century American Art

Author: Barbara S. Groseclose

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780192842251

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"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.

Forty Years of American Life
Forty Years of American Life

Author: Thomas Low Nichols

Publisher: London, Maxwell

Published: 1864

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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A physician makes observations on American life for an English audience. A memoir of the doctor, born in New Hampshire, which leads him toward commentary on American politics, slavery, education, and morality.

Adorno and Art
Adorno and Art

Author: J. Hellings

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1137315717

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A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic.

Making Representations
Making Representations

Author: Moira G. Simpson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1135632715

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Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and forging new relationships with communities. Simpson examines the increasing number of museums and cultural centres being established by indigenous and immigrant communities as they take control of the interpretive process and challenge the traditional role of the museum. Museum studies students and museum professionals will all find this a stimulating and valuable read.

Work Ethic
Work Ethic

Author: Helen Anne Molesworth

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780271023342

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Examines the proliferation of new ways of making "art" in the 1960s by focusing on the changed organization of work in society at the time. Co-published with The Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.