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

Work and the Image: v. 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes: Volume 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 October 2019
Pages
266
ISBN
9781138730427

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

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. 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.

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