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Art, labour and American life : 1930-2020
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- Creator
- Ben Hickman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]
- Physical Details
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- ix, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 3031414896, 9783031414893, 9783031414909, 9783031414909
- OCLC
- on1390120572
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Testimony and relation: the purpose of proletarian realism -- 3. White-collar labour and its discontents: Jackson Pollock's DIY -- 4. Fear of work: Hannah Arendt's Cold War aesthetics -- 5. The managerial avant-garde: John Cage's natural authority -- 6. Having a real day of it: grace, time, and pastoral in Frank O'Hara's work poems -- 7. Advanced workers: Amiri Baraka in the seventies -- 8. Doing the work: Audre Lorde's warrior-academics -- 9. Endurance, time, guilt: housework and performance art -- 10. Precarious fictions: migration and globalisation in the work of Karen Tei Yamashita, Judith Butler, and Kiran Desai -- Epilogue
Subjects
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
- Work -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Work -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.