Work and the Image : Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1: A Greek vase-painting: comments on the nature of craftsmanship?; 2: Aux armes et aux arts! Blacksmiths at the National Convention; 3: ‘The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover’: LaVille-Leroulx’s Portrait de Negresse and the signs of misrecognition; 4: Death and the worker: Rethel in 1849; 5: Gender and the ideology of capitalism: William Bell Scott’s Iron and Coal; 6: Time and work-discipline in Pissarro; 7: Mihaly Biro’s Nepszava poster and the emergence of Tendenzkunst; 8: A re-vision of Ukrainian identity: images of labouring peasant women in Tatiana Yablonskaia’s Corn , 1949; 9: Life and work in Silesia according to Kazimierz Kutz; 10: This time next year we’ll be farting through silk: aspiration and experience