Work and the Image: Volume 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes

ISBN-13: 9781138730465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 266 str.

Mainz, Valerie

Opis

This title was first published in 2000. 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: trauma and subjectivity in work and worklessness; 1: ‘Living tableaux of misery and oppression’: sweated labour on tour 1; 2: Facing horror: women’s work, sculptural practice and the Great War; 3: Colour, light and labour: Futurism and the dissolution of work; 4: The missing mécanicienne : gender, production and order in Léger’s machine aesthetic; 5: 'A progressive dematerialisation of labour power': 1 a problem for visual representation in Germany in the 1920s; 6: From cyborg to state worker: figures as/in technology; 7: Realism and ideology in André Fougeron's Le Pays des Mines 1; 8: Working images: the representations of documentary film; 9: The pathos of the political: documentary, subjectivity and a forgotten moment of feminist avant-garde poetics in four films from the 1970s; 10: Teletales from the crypt

O autorze

Valerie Mainz, Griselda Pollock