Work in modern times : visual meditations and social processes
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Work in modern times : visual meditations and social processes
（Work and the image / Edited by Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock, 2）
Ashgate, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - trauma and subjectivity in work and worklessness, Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock
- "Living tableaux of misery and opression" - sweated labour on tour, Katrina Huneault
- Facing horror - women's work, sculptural practice and the Great War, Claudine Mitchell
- Colour, light and labour - futurism and the dissolution of work, John C. Welchman
- The missing m chanicienne - gender, production and order in L ger's machine aesthetic, Mo Price
- "A progressive dematerialization of labour power" - a problem for visual representation for Germany in the 1920s, Martin Ignatius Gaughan
- From cyborg to state worker - figures as/in technology, Annie G rin
- Realism and Ideology in Andr Forgeron's Les Pays de Mines, Vivian Rehberg
- Working images - the representations of documentary film, Elizabeth Cowie
- The pathos of the political - documentary, subjectivity and a forgotten moment of feminist avant-garde poetics in four films from the 1970s, Griselda Pollock
- Teletales from the Crypt, Nancy Barton.
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